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Despite the safety and power of his position, Monk is slightly disturbed. He introduces into his description of the Waipori millennium the exercise books of a retarded girl named Milly Galbraith. Hers is the traditional tale told by the classic simpleton that unwittingly speaks the truth. As Milly wonders about her fate under the H.D.A., her naive narration and bad spelling redeem words from the neutrality of numbers...
...dose has produced no ill effects in the two other known cases. But unless the radioactive element is removed, they will go right on "ticking" as long as they live-and probably for some time thereafter. Americium has a half-life of 458 years; it takes nearly half a millennium for 50% of the isotope to disappear...
...year 1200 marks a high point in the millennium between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance. Around that time, a sweet wind of humanism swept across the dark face of Europe, bringing with it a new interest in Latin classics and Greek philosophy, a delight in racy troubadour songs and epic verse, and a keener awareness of the dignity of man. The Magna Carta was signed, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Notre Dame and Reims were begun...
...show direct interrelationships. The large passage from the severe portraits of Colonial America to the abstract color of Hans Hoffman is not illuminated. Yet similar sensibilities toward art appear at unpredictable times. The oldest piece in the show, a Cycladic idol from an Aegean island in the third millennium, B. C., a work of majestic simplicity, resembles the work of Brancusi, a contemporary sculptor, who unfortunately is not in the exhibition...
...sent to Paris was created by teams. The other new beginning is a cool fascination with man's urban environment as subject-dream cityscapes, 21st century living and working places, architectural fantasies. But these are suggestive glimpses of the art that is forming toward the turn of the millennium...