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...Tinian, a 39-sq-mi. island in the Marianas some 1,500 miles south of Japan, U.S. forces had constructed the largest airport in the world, including four parallel, 8,500-ft.-long runways designed for B-29 Superfortresses. Several of the incendiary-bomb raids on Japanese cities staged by Major General Curtis LeMay's XXI Bomber Command began and ended in the Marianas. Members of the 509th unit started arriving at Tinian in June. On July 26, components of Little Boy, the uranium-based bomb that was scheduled to be dropped first, reached Tinian aboard the U.S. warship Indianapolis...
Computer scientists come at the problem from a different direction. The mind is something like a parallel-processing computer, they argue, and consciousness is simply the coordinated signal-processing of individual "agents." These agents, described as simple computer programs, sound a bit like the Damasios' convergence zones. Computer scientists and neuroscientists seem to be arriving at theories that look, in some ways, very similar...
Instead of the usual scholarly catalog, the museum has opted for a collection of texts, poems and stories by (mostly American) writers, ranging from Paul Auster to very early Norman Mailer, from Ann Lauterbach to William Kennedy. These suggest a parallel harmony to the paintings, not art history or criticism but analogies in writing. (Since, unlike most curators, the writers can write, one can read this vade mecum with pleasure after the show.) The idea is to show how pervasive the areas of American experience that Hopper raised have become. The show falls between two more formal Hopper events...
...their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed by Harrison's chilling prose about women and men trapped in societal malignancy...
...undermined by the presence of women," who are by nature "more delicate in their sensibilities than men," and who disrupt the education of men. McGuire's concern is solely with the education of men, claiming that "coeducation at Harvard does deleteriously affect many men's attitudes towards women"; a parallel argument would be that Blacks interfere with the education of whites and therefore should not be allowed to study at Harvard...