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From electric chairs in Eliot House to red and green monsters that mow the hardy grass of the Yard, it is apparent that Harvard is producing more and more devices and inventions calculated to make life either simple or complex, according to the point of view of the gullible layman...
...very serious theories on window designing, which he regards as nearer to music than painting. He prefers the 12th Century masters who used large pieces of glass in the primary colors, simply juxtaposed, rather than designers of the 13th Century, who broke up their glowing blues and reds in complex patterns at the risk of purplish vibrations of light. "Purple addles your brain," Henry Willet says...
...zealot. Instead, he mellowed under the mantle of office. Some of his oldtime liberal colleagues became bitter (he was eventually attacked by the New Republic), catalogued him as a conservative, denounced him for having lunched with Wall Street bigwigs. Although he worked prodigiously to keep the SEC's complex mechanism functioning, he did not launch any great crusade...
Some molecules are so small that they contain only one atom. Some are so large that they contain hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of atoms. Although they cannot be seen under the microscope, the giant, complex molecules of proteins are among the most important targets of current research in biological chemistry. Until recent years not much was known about them except that they were very big; that they contained carbon, hydrogen. oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulphur and phosphorus; that in such animal processes as digestion they were broken down by protein-wreckers called enzymes and that they were composed of polypeptide...
Last week Harvey O'Connor (Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...