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(PBS, Sundays, beginning Jan. 27.) Perhaps the hardest thing to capture on film is a mind at work, and scriptwriters usually resort to obvious devices: a composer tinkling tunes on the piano, a novelist tearing paper out of his typewriter or a scientist pouring foul-looking glop from one test...
The age of mass entertainment is but a blip on the screen of evolution; yet the process of changing Homo erectus into Homo sedentarius is well under way. We sit; we watch; we listen. We sit, talk and read about what we have seen and heard. As a drama critic...
Andre's explorations into new realms of sculpture contributed to the evolution of two other schools of art. Environmental artists created "earthworks" inseparable from individual settings. Christo's running fence in California is one of the most famous of these projects.
Neither Byzantine nor Lombard: The Evolution of Southern Italy in the 9th and 10th Centuries--Barbara M. Kreutz, assistant vice chancellor, University of Wisconsin; Agassiz House, 4 p.m.
Historians of the far future may indeed regard the last half of the 20th century as an especially rich period of scientific discovery, but they may also recognize it to have been the time when public attitudes toward science began taking a turn for the worse. To combat the continuation...