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...theory "should express everything in field physics." It should also, he says, reduce Einstein's theory to a special case, just as Einstein's theory reduced Newton's laws of motion. Like all such high-flown scientific theories, Schrödinger's consists of a complex equation expressed in mathematical symbols. To the nonscientific, it looks like incomprehensible doodling (see cut of theory in Schrödinger's own hand...
...classed as specialists-and the specialist class is growing. Only last fortnight, Dean Willard C. Rappleye of Columbia University's School of Medicine predicted that group practice in community hospitals will eventually do away with the independent general practitioner. Said Dr. Rappleye: "Medical knowledge is now so complex . . . that . . . complete medical service can no longer be rendered by an individual physician alone...
...cyclically adjusted tax burdens, together with attempts to get at the more fundamental factors through income redistribution, subsidized consumption, and active encouragement of private investment. The nation's best-known advocate of deliberate fiscal planning insists that reliance cannot be placed on any one policy alone, for a complex economic environment requires correspondingly complicated and flexible countermeasures...
...away." Coming in an era of atom bombs, Mark I automatic calculators, and, of all things, snow removal machines, such an attitude seems to take on definite defeatist implications. One might even attribute a philosophy of life to it; but unfortunately the situation is not so simple nor complex as a set of beliefs built around a snow version of the axiom that what goes up must come down. No, the answer is simply that a shortage of labor and equipment exists that cannot be remedied...
Roger Sessions' music is for composers and critics, not for mere listeners. Next day the audience was told what it had heard. The San Francisco Chronicle's able critic Alfred Frankenstein, called it "big . . . challenging . . . important . . . austere . . . fiendishly difficult ... a complex of forceful and fruitful ideas which can be studied for a long time before they yield all their secrets...