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...concentrates on the Middle Ages' last four centuries (up to 1400), when its biggest and best products were the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals which soared up all over Europe. Since it could not show this monumental architecture, the Boston Museum picked smaller objects to illustrate the basic medieval concept of art: a devotion which lavished technique and materials on the work in hand far beyond any practical need...
...scientific concept of the ether -an all-pervading medium which transmits light and gravitational force-is a nine-lived cat. Supposedly killed off several times, it still keeps pattering around science's pantry. Last week Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, an astute and merry physicist who works for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, gave the old tabby a good strong shot of mathematical adrenalin...
...quarrel with the concept of the Communist Party that it is the responsibility of the Party to defend the foreign policy of the Soviet Union regardless of what it does. I have also very grave doubts about the policy of the Soviet Union itself. I think its present action is a betrayal of the World Revolution...
...journal Science reprinted parts of a fiery resolution recently adopted by the Kremlin's official astronomers, subsequently published in the Astronomical Journal of the Soviet Union: "Modern bourgeois cosmogony is in a state of deep ideological confusion resulting from its refusal to accept the only true dialectic-materialistic concept, namely, the infinity of the universe with respect to space as well as time...
CURIOS: Dr. Vagts, a member of the Princeton faculty, said that he saw a connection between the balance of power concept in world politics and the part in the center of the Saviour's hair in da Vinci's painting, "The Last Supper." He said that the part is the center from which the picture's symmetry was laid out and from this the left side is seen to balance the right. This feeling for balance and symmetry, he added, was also reflected in the manner in which groups of nations were weighed against one another and the way that...