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...informal consortium of some 30 designers from eight countries has provoked some of the fiercest skirmishes since 1926, when U.S. Customs agents pondered whether Brancusi's Bird in Space was a work of art or a mere metal implement. Some are hailing Memphis as a quantum leap. Says Bill Lacy, president of New York's Cooper Union: "It's bold and shocking, a new way of thinking about furnishings." Its products grace several museum collections and have been featured in more than 200 magazine articles. But the group's self-conscious combination of campy references...
...European imports out of the U.S. market. Italy's Fiat stopped selling here earlier this year, and Renault will no longer offer its Le Car in America. Although Volkswagen still makes Rabbits at its plant in Westmoreland, Pa., it imports only pricier models like the Jetta, Sirocco and Quantum...
Certainty's embarrassing kin guides Thomas past accepted wisdom to good sense and imaginative speculation. He studies quantum mechanics and realizes that it holds no mystic truths or fetching metaphors for him because he does not know the mathematics. Elsewhere, he bucks psychiatric doctrine and formulates a hands-off policy toward the unconscious: "It cannot be a bad thing to own one, but I would no more think of meddling with it than trying to exorcise my liver, an equally mysterious apparatus. Until we know a lot more, it would be wise, as we have learned from other fields...
...abused children become adults, more and more are openly discussing their pasts, both to conquer their emotional problems and to help others deal with theirs. Private and government agencies are forming to aid the victims. At the same time, public awareness of child abuse has taken a quantum jump. In 1976, for example, polls showed that only about 10% of Americans considered it a serious national problem. A recent Louis Harris survey placed that concern...
...Bright Wilson has been among the pioneers in his field since the 1930s, when he co-authored a textbook on quantum mechanics with the chemist I must Pauling. He went on to write "Introduction to Scientific Research" (1952) and co-author an influential study on molecular vibrations...