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...Arthur S. Brisbane '72, now editor of the Kansas City Star, agrees, saying the takeover had a definite impact on Harvard students...
...history concentrator, Wharton named two history professors, Frederick Merk and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, as among the most memorable figures he encountered at Harvard. "They were just superb teachers," he says...
...star-studded list of his classmates and colleagues Wharton cites Jack Lemmon '47, the actor; Arthur A. Hartman '47, former ambassador to France and to the Soviet Union; S. Douglass Cater Jr. '46-'47, former Crimson business manager and later head of the Bloomingdale's department store chain; and the late John Knowles, who served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation while Wharton was a trustee there...
Other early American Modernists, like Arthur Dove, explored this landscape mysticism too. This is not surprising, since one of the great influences on Dove, Hartley and others was the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, whose tract Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published...
...adolescence Berners-Lee read science fiction, including Arthur C. Clarke's short story Dial F for Frankenstein. It is, he recalls, about "crossing the critical threshold of number of neurons," about "the point where enough computers get connected together" that the whole system "started to breathe, think, react autonomously." Could the World Wide Web actually realize Clarke's prophecy? No-- and yes. Berners-Lee warns against thinking of the Web as truly alive, as a literal global brain, but he does expect it to evince "emergent properties" that will transform society. Such as? Well, if he could tell you, they...