Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TANYA Selvaratnam as Medea goes full throttle with the mental illness aspect of her character. From the very beginning of the play, Selvaratnam portrays Medea as having lost it full tilt. Thus, you lose sight of the rational motivations that her character might possess.
"I think Bush will go further in terms ofbringing about a rational relationship with Cuba,"he said. "The Reagan Administration started offtough, but they ended up sitting down and talking.I think this will continue.
"Pythagoras first developed the idea that the ratio between two musical pitches should be a rational number," McConnell explains. "Some people consider him to be the founder of both math and music."
In the fifth century, Pythagoras' idea of "rational intervals" between musical pitches was resurrected and profoundly influenced Western music through-out the Middle Ages, McConnell continues.
By the late Middle Ages, however, music theorists began to experiment with non-rational intervals to enhance aesthetic appeal. "Musicians began to be disillusioned with the rigidness of the mathematical structure," McConnell says. "Math and music began to diverge--each culture began to build up its own world, with its...