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...this week's SCIENCE section appears a story on a subject that is just beginning to make a public impact, though TIME first reported on the "neutron bomb" back in November 1959. It is one of those subjects that, in the nature of national security, inevitably involves a high degree of classified information. Those who know most about it can't and won't talk. Those who do talk about it often know too little, and misinformation and exaggeration spread...
...museum's collection. "Primitive art in general tends to be rather static," says Lewis. "But when these craftsmen were given the impetus of a new people, they were released from the static view of their own society. There is no question that the colonists had an impact upon their art." Lewis believes that some of the sculptures may have been made to be sold to the whites, but if the show proves anything at all, it is that the urge to satirize is the same the world over...
...critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...
Many of the questions of the conference will deal with urbanization. What is that impact of the city on its population? what are the specific characteristics--physical, social, cultural, etc.-- that explain this impact? How explain urban growth, and why do some cities stagnate or die? What is the broader significance of suburbanization, and what happens to the central city...
...blows straight from the diaphragm and generates such a wind that trying to top him, testifies another associate, is like "blowing down the throat of a hurricane." In recent months, the hurricane has swirled through Las Vegas (The Dunes), Manhattan (Basin Street East) and the TV networks with an impact that has made Trumpeter Hirt one of the hottest properties in jazz...