Word: dumbness
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...historian of art. He has two kids-two boys-both physicists, and they are very, very bright boys, and one of them is first in his class at Princeton. The other is second. They call one the 'bright' Panofsky and the other the 'dumb' Panofsky") to Oppenheimer's own ideas of security and secrecy ("There aren't any secrets about the world of nature. There are only secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. Sometimes they are secret because a man doesn't like to know what...
...that some of his best friends were Jews, and that the DOA had violated its promise by publishing the letter Vitt meant to be used "circumspectly." It looked as if some people in Agriculture would be well cast in the role of Mortimer Gooch, the man who was so dumb it must have been premeditated...
Most Hated & Adored. When Gladstone's enemies asked, as they frequently did, why God was always a Liberal, never a Tory, Gladstone patiently explained that God was choosy about whom He backed, and often refused to reveal Himself to dumb or backward persons. But perhaps God voted Liberal as often as He did because He realized that no politician, of any age, in any country, had struggled so vigorously as Gladstone to practice what He preached...
Died. Robert Edmond Jones, 66, dean of U.S. stage designers; in Milton, N.H. A student of Max Reinhardt, Jones became famous overnight in 1915 with his settings (in "colors as loud as gongs") for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. In more than 200 subsequent productions (among the most famous: The Green Pastures, Redemption, most of the plays of Eugene O'Neill), he projected the thoughts of playwrights in vivid, interpretative settings which were "not pictures, but images," vigorously rejected the traditional idea of stage design as simple decoration. "A setting," he wrote, "is a presence, a mood...
Forked Tongue. In Baltimore, Ralph Brickerd, 57, displayed a sign reading DEAF AND DUMB. PLEASE HELP to City Patrolman George T. Hughes, was asked what he meant by it, readily replied: "It's a fast way to make a buck," was arrested for the 140th time...