furthering scholasticism (concerned with applying Aristotle's philosophy to the tenets of Christianity) rather than original inquiry.
"Emotional Causes of Sudden Death" Joel E. Din~sdale.in The American Journal of Psychiatry (Dec. 1977), 1700 18th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
A 71-year-old woman arrived by ambulance at a hospital emergency room with her stricken 61-year-old sister, who was pronounced dead on arrival. The elder woman collapsed at the news, developed a heart attack,...
blocking (or enhancing) enkephalin production, it may be possible to regulate emotional disorders. Tests are already being conducted with schizophrenic patients.
To Dea Now "How Artificial Is Intelligence?" William R. Bennet, Jr.,in American Scien-Nat To Be? tist (Nov.-Dec. 1977), 345 Whitney Ave.,
New Haven, Conn. 06511.
In 1927, physicist and mathematician Sir Arthur Eddington proposed a modern version of an ancient philosphical conundrum: Could an army of monkeys drumming on typewriters...
"weighting" a computer-typewiter to account for an author's most commonly used letters, the famous monkey problem can be applied to almost any field of literature. The examples above are based on Hamlet, A Farewell to Arms, and Roger Bacon's Secreturn Secretorurn.
Better-educated fourth-order computers yielded 90 percent words in their letter groups, but Hamlet's soliloquy remained elusive. Unfortu- nately, the biggest computers today are not capable of simulating cor- relations of a...
Thomas H. Maugh 11, in Sci-of Oil Shale ence (Dec. 9, 1977), 1515 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
The United States in the 1970s has become reliant on high-priced for- eign sources of petroleum. According to Maugh, a Science staff writer, this combination of inelastic demand and rising prices has made the development of domestic oil shale economically feasible.
Oil shale-oil locked tightly in solid shale formations-has been touted before as a solution to America's energy crisis,...
Thomas H. Maugh 11, in Sci-of Oil Shale ence (Dec. 9, 1977), 1515 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
The United States in the 1970s has become reliant on high-priced for- eign sources of petroleum. According to Maugh, a Science staff writer, this combination of inelastic demand and rising prices has made the development of domestic oil shale economically feasible.
Oil shale-oil locked tightly in solid shale formations-has been touted before as a solution to America's energy crisis,...
the problems of conducting human tests. The primary threat posed water pollutants lies in their long- term, low-dose cumulative effects. Because humans live about 35 times longer than mice and have a far more variable genetic composition, high-dose animal exposure tests are no good for determining maximum exposure concentrations in humans.
Despite the lack of adequate testing techniques, says Sterrett, scien- tists must keep plodding along, taking care to continuously "review, re-evaluate,...
the Philadel- phia architect William Strickland, who routinely incorporated sculpture into the many new public build- ings he designed for the city. the time of Houdon's death in 1828, Philadelphia displayed a sculptural land- scape unmatched elsewhere in the new nation.
Philadelphia's William Rush,
who was once a carver of ship's
figureheads, executed this statue
of George Washington in 1S14.
"Vanity, Fame, Love and Robert Frost" by Donald Hall, in Commentary (Dec. 1977), 165...
a need to convince the world of his superiority. From this compulsion, says Hall, Frost constructed his public persona (the simple rustic) and his professional image (the fierce competitor bent on sitting alone atop the "steeple of literary acclaim").
Frost himself believed that he was an evil man who had to be tricked into acts of kindness-he joined in efforts to free poet Ezra Pound from a mental hospital, but only because he thought Pound's release would bring personal publicity. In...
Leonee Ormond, in The Burlington Magazine (Nov. 1977), Elm
House, 10-16 Elm St., London WC1, Eng-
land.
Although long regarded as a gold mine for the social historian, John Galsworthy's fictional series, The Forsyte Saga, has never been recog- nized as a harbinger of changing English taste in art. Businessman Soames Forsyte, the Saga's central character, is a collector of paintings; the time the novels have spanned the years 1886-1926, Soame...
Alain Rou~uik, in Etudes (Oct. 1977), 15 R& Monsieur. 75007 Paris, France.
When the military government of General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in 1976 from President Isabel Peron, Argentinians faced both unbridled terrorism and an annual inflation rate as high as 480 percent. Videla moved quickly to crack down on terrorism. But according to Rouqui6, the terrorist threat is now being used chiefly as an excuse for continued civil repression.
Since the late 1960s, when the current wave of...