Word: atomization
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...author of the second offering, a musical comedy on the atom bomb, is Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminal Law and Criminalology at the Law School. Glueck sired the book and lyrics, while William Hughes, student of international law at the University of Chicago, fathered the music...
...really advanced physicists, nuclear fission is old, dull stuff. What excites them now is "ultra-nucleonics," study of "the elementary particles within the atom which are capable of releasing thousands of times as much energy as is produced by the nuclear fission on which the A-bomb is based." To these men, trained in the esoteric mysteries of quantum mechanics, all matter is merely condensed energy. It is formed by the interaction of waves, and to waves it can return. What a triumph it would be, they speculate, to turn matter all at once into waves of energy...
...penetrated the thin outer layers of the public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...
...week there was no sign that the Daily News, in losing Patterson, had lost his "common touch." Its headlines still crackled (IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, u.s. ANSWER TO TITO); its editorials were still full of beans. Its latest comment on those who would share, or ban, the atom bomb: We SAY IT'S SPINACH AND WE SAY THE HELL WITH...
...canvas has nothing of the breadth, her prose nothing of the lugubrious weight of The Good Earth. With intelligence and respect she enumerates the everyday joys and sorrows of a people who know all there is to know about the soil, nothing whatever about the British Empire or the atom bomb...