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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he has not yet pinpointed the origin of the waves, Weber thinks that they may have come from some massive object in the Milky Way. Weber says that by measuring gravity waves, astronomers may be able to explore still other fascinating mysteries of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relativity: Gravitating Toward Einstein | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...novelist, Miss Susann unwittingly gravitates toward a caricature of naturalism, a relatively uncomplicated form of literary life born in the seminal spillage of Darwin's The Origin of Species and kept alive by public demand. Naturalism at best tends to project the human animal as an unappetizing accumulation of nerve endings and appetites. But in Miss Susann's handling, appetites consume the characters they inhabit, leaving nothing behind but a bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jackie's Machine | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Stay the Knife. Technically, the total suppression of pain comes only with anesthesia, which cannot be prolonged. The lighter state of analgesia, or relief of pain without loss of consciousness, is far more difficult to achieve. For cancer patients with intractable pain of indisputably physical origin, neurosurgeons have devised a number of radical operations. One of the commonest, for pain anywhere below the neck, is cordotomy-literally, cutting the spinal cord-a remedy that is less drastic than it sounds. In the standard operation, the cord is exposed and a small cut is made in the nerve bundles controlling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

These offenses are political in their origin and active thrust. They share in the special fury of political passion, which is, as Pasternak described it, like the fury and torment of adolescent love: "It tears one to shreds, and nothing save harm seems to come of it. At the same time one can not get free of it. And all who enter as people into history will always pass through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Professor's View of Punishment | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...striking. To use only one example, German universities began to cave in when students coerced faculties to appoint professorships in Rassenwissenchaft, that is, professorships devoted to teaching the special aspects, merits, achievements, of one race versus others, rather than concentrating in their teaching on contributions to knowledge, whatever the origin of the person who made the contribution...

Author: By Some CONCERNED Harvard parents, | Title: A PSYCHOLOGIST'S VIEW | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

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