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Half a century passed before Galileo's question was answered. In a 1659 treatise, Systema Saturnium. Dutch Astronomer Christiaan Huygens correctly deduced the the ears of Saturn were a distinct ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly...
...Iranians." So said a visibly saddened President Carter last week at an impromptu press conference at the White House. It was his discouraging answer to a question about whether Tehran had reacted to a formal U.S. response to Iranian conditions for releasing the 52 American hostages. Two days earlier, a U.S. delegation, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, had flown to Algiers with a carefully formulated written statement of the American position. Acting as go-betweens, Algerian officials received the document and delivered it to Tehran. At week's end the chaotic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...message went as far as possible in meeting the Iranian terms within the bounds of the U.S. legal system and the national honor. Describing the U.S. response, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, "It's comprehensive, it's thoughtful, it's positive. So, the question is whether they are convinced that that's the limit beyond which...
That may not be the only question the designers of the exhibition had in mind when they arranged it, but the question is unavoidable. The selections were made by J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery, Professor Nicholas Yalouris, inspector-general of the antiquities of Greece, and other experts, all of whom know how to develop a hypothesis as well as an exhibition. The installation affects a quest. It is divided among three distinct, sequential sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark...
...question of motive remains, however. Perhaps it is not an individual matter. The strange, neatly fragmented world of the exhibition is not our world; we clump through it like dinosaurs. For one thing, theirs was a time of simple weapons and elaborate drinking cups. Ours is the reverse. For another, we see death as sleep, and they saw it as an eternal feast, an all-night bash. In short, the ancients would have recognized the code of a Gordon Liddy. But what are most of us to make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals...