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...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
...last week's National Electronics Conference at Chicago, Schafer discussed recent improvements in scientific knowledge and control of the brain. After all, he pointed out, the brain is a digital computer whose functioning can be profoundly affected by electrical influences. The electroencephalograph (brainwave detector) shows electrical signals that ebb and flow in the brain. Perhaps these signals can be simulated, controlling the brain's sensations and thoughts...
...abstraction, Wights painted ideas ripple out to include what he calls "the transitoriness lite. Now we're here, now we're not." Says he: "I suppose that I would have been a good transcendentalist 100 years ago." He often paints water, finding in its unresting ebb and flow an almost obsessive symbol for the tides of time. On occasion, as in his stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying tree to suggest the fact that even...
...leave Boston this weekend, but they will be back next week for any Summer School students who are interested in seeing social relations at their lowest ebb in years. And don't go to the park alone; bring your girl friend, your wife, or all the kiddies. After all, last night was "Family Night" at Fenway Park...
Geologists have developed many theories to account for the ebb and flow of glaciers in Europe and North America. Some blame external causes, such as interstellar dust or changes in the earth's atmosphere. In Science, Professors (of geology) Maurice Ewing of Columbia University and William L. Bonn of Brooklyn College propound a theory of ice ages that requires no cause external to the earth and no change in the atmosphere...