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...nautică, sau încercări sporadice de fizică teoretică). În afara unor autotraduceri, şi-acelea înaintând greu din lipsă de timp, iar în domeniul plastic al ‘artei electronice’ (pe computer), mai scriu ca “literatură” doar memoriile despre diversele conferinţe ştiinţifice internaţionale la care sunt invitat să prezint lucrări de cercetare ori seminarii. Memorii care, d...

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...he Declaration of Independence.” Hudson, like most men with a turn for the plastic arts, was an excellent mimic, and he represented with a great deal ... ...discovery that he had missed his way, and that the only proper vestment of plastic conceptions was the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese. Then one ... ...undisguised though friendly amusement; and, indeed, judged from a strictly plastic point of view, the poor fellow’s diminutive stature, his enormous m... ...dently the greatest bliss in life, for Roderick, would have been to have a plastic idea. And then, it was impossible not to feel ten- 306 Roderick Hu...

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...wonderful sculpture of the miraculous hunt of that holy man. In the way of plastic art this elaborate scene is the gem of Amboise. It seemed to us tha... ...nterprises. To-day we should question the taste of such allusions, even in plastic form, in the house of a “merchant prince” (say in the Fifth Avenue)...

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...- product and not an essential factor in social life, that prop- erty is a plastic and fluctuating convention, that value is ca- pable of impersonal t... ...t, could hope to understand the possibilities and the limitations of human plasticity in this matter, and say what any men and any women could be indu... ...ld, by the accidents of custom and proximity. Adolescence is a defenceless plastic period. You are a man to form great affec- tions,—noble, great affe...

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... body, with an iridescent tail of dreams and with a changeable head like a plastic mask. It was only later that I perceived that in common with the re...

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...stripped off its ideality and produced form alone. We may seek in vain for plastic grace, the swing of comedy, dramatic action, musical genius, or the...

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...lly good. And he was amongst them like a child, sensitive, impressionable, plastic—but un- able to find for himself any sort of comment. I don’t know ...

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...dice connected with money and money figures,’ continued Doyce, laying that plastic workman’s thumb of his on the lapel of his partner’s coat, ‘it is a... ...my dear Clennam,’ said Doyce, proceeding to mould them severally, with his plastic thumb, on the palm of his hand, ‘and they’re soon disposed of. Firs...

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... REACTION. THE FRIEDEL-CRAFTS REACTION. THE GRIGNARD REACTIONS. THE SABATIER- SENDERENS REACTION. THE DIELS- ALDER REACTION. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLASTIC POLYMERS 225   THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION OF THE 19TH and 20TH CENTURIES 226 JAMES WATT (1736-1819) Scottish Engineer 227 Developed the Steam Engine. ALESSANDRO VOLTA (1745-1827) Italian Physicist 228 Invented...

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...ers, rather than from the theorists; and, among those artists, in the most plastic of languages, I hold Demosthenes to have been the greatest. The Gre... ...henes to have been the greatest. The Greek is, beyond comparison, the most plastic of lan- guages. It was a material which bent to the purposes of him...

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...ration of Frenchwomen; ours, though more accomplished, are colder and less plastic. But Miss Halkett is surpassingly beautiful, very amiable, very gen...

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...st mould, As calves encourage and take steps to tame, While pliant wills and plastic youth allow. And first of slender withies round the throat Loose ...

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...ass. “How are you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch? Particularly sculpturesque and plastic, so to say, and richly colored is that passage where you feel Corde...

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...emmes with one eye, his trousers with another, and con- verted his utterly plastic personality into an amorous ma- chine for several seconds, thereby ...

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...nd endowed the phantoms conjured up 18 The Magic Skin from that inert and plastic material so liberally with his own life and feelings, that the soun...

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...he key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. (1) It sounds absurd to hear dependence spoken of as something ... ...e specific adaptability of an immature creature for growth constitutes his plasticity. This is something quite different from the plasticity of putty ... ...the needed powers; this pro- longation of dependence means prolongation of plastic- ity, or power of acquiring variable and novel modes of control. He... ...l progress. 2. Habits as Expressions of Growth. We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience f... ...d decision. As we have seen, the acquiring of habits is due to an original plasticity of our natures: to our ability to 54 Democracy & Education vary... ... possess us instead of our possessing them, are habits which put an end to plasticity. They mark the close of power to vary. There can be no doubt of ... ...e close of power to vary. There can be no doubt of the tendency of organic plastic- ity, of the physiological basis, to lessen with growing years. The... ...and profoundness.” Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity. Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and y... ...city. Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and youth. Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of hab...

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... influences does it not send inwards, even to the centre; especially in those plastic first times, when the whole soul is yet infantine, soft, and the i...