Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum is unquestionably the biggest tourist attraction in Washington. C.D.B. Bryan's The National Air and Space Museum (Abrams; 504 pages; $50) should prove just as big an attraction on the coffee table. One reason this book works is its photography, done with knowledge and passion by Michael Freeman, Robert Golden and Dennis Rolfe, whether showing a venerable DC-3 as it makes its way through the heavy traffic suspended from the museum's raf ters, capturing the streamlined power of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter or catching an earthrise on the moon...
...Freeman Dyson's first book, Disturbing the Universe, has all the trappings of a commercial pounding: his famous name, sensational subject matter, characters from history books. But Dyson, who might have gotten away with a forgettable rehash, offers instead a captivating portrait of one of the formative minds of modern physics...
...meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist...
This portion of the book accounts for the most puzzling disproportion in Disturbing the Universe. Freeman Dyson is a proven scientific commodity. Robert Oppenheimer hailed his successful synthesis of two seemingly irreconcilable but equally correct theories of the electron as one of the century's breakthroughs. Now the Alfred P. Sloan foundation has asked him to contribute his bit to "the public understanding of the scientific enterprise...
...Freeman said he would be "ecstatic" if the committee appoints three of four tenured faculty members by next year. But four prospective faculty turned down offers to join Afro-Am because of what Ferguson called Cambridge's poor reputation in terms of race relations...