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...make its purpose intelligible. But if in place of our eye, it should be a purely material object, a photographic plate that has watched the action, then what we shall see in the courtyard of the Institute for example, will be, instead of the dignified emergence of an Academician who is going to hail a cab, his staggering gait, his precautions to avoid tumbling on his back, the parabola of his fall, as though he were drunk, or the ground frozen over...
...nations are united in keeping peace-despite villainous Klingons and Romulans. Jesco Von Puttkamer, a NASA scientist who gave two S.R.O. lectures at the convention, said that the show "reflects a positivistic attitude. It's a mirror to our present world with some adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired a model of the Enterprise. Paramount is now planning to make...
...some extent a great man can control his autobiographer. With biographers he must trust to luck, and James Thurber has not been lucky. A couple of years ago, an academician named Charles Holmes produced a solemn literary biography called The Clocks of Columbus, in which he discerned, for instance, three levels of language in the 2,500 words of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Now comes New Yorker Writer Burton Bernstein with a drink-by-drink analysis, or bibulography, of the humorist's sometimes agonizing life...
...this we experienced as we read Academician [Andrei] Sakharov's article* and heard the international reactions to it. Our hearts beat faster as we realized that someone had broken out from the deep, untroubled, cozy drowse in which Soviet scientists pursue their scientific work. It was a liberating joy to realize that Western atomic scientists are not the only ones who feel pangs of conscience-that a conscience is awakening amongst our own scientists...
...overemphasizing techniques and exact answers, the academician reveals an unwillingness to go out on a limb. Quantitative problems are usually small problems because data do not exist for the larger ones, unless estimated with gross approximation. For instance, you can solve the logistical problems of a war with systems analysis, but you cannot decide thereby if the war ought to be fought (Vietnam illustrates both points). Even apart from quantification, Harvard is still marked by an alarming degree of personal aloofness from society's problems, which is another form of refusing to go out on a limb. Of course this...