Word: geometricism
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It is one of life's great unexplained chemical quirks: the 20 amino acids found in all living things almost always have the same geometric configuration. The structure can best be demonstrated by crystallizing the amino acids and passing polarized light through them; the light waves are always rotated...
Service. Elstein was born in 1948 -the year that Harry Truman, amid predictions of Democratic ruin, defeated Thomas E. Dewey. He hopes there will be parallels this year. The son of a retired high school history and economics teacher, Ken grew up politically aware, listening to dinner-table conversation in...
Humor. In Hockney's most recent painting, even the elaborate ambiguities have dropped away, leaving an exhibition of (almost) normal genre painting and landscape. Some of the humor remains. One painting looks like an orthodox New York abstraction, with a plane of blue punctuated by a red geometric circle...
At any rate, Simon was brainily charismatic that Thursday, and his listeners approved. Smiles is a quadrille danced by four pairs of lovers, with a geometric literary netting at its base (all end up in the arms of those they first refused), and cosmic ironies at its outer limits. Simon...
ALL along. President Nixon and his advisers knew that a crucial time of testing for the Administration's Viet Nam policy had to come. With geometric inevitability, the descending curve that describes the withdrawal of U.S. ground combat forces would have to intersect the curve that plots rising South Vietnamese...