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...expert on thermonuclear power and a jolly nice chap, Martelli came to the attention of a British physicist, through him won a place on the 600-man team working on long-term fusion research at Culham Laboratory in the Cotswolds. There, in Room 103, Giuseppe spent his days in pure research, the kind of science that is not expected to yield concrete results until the 1980s; like all Euratom projects, it involved no classified information. After a few weeks in England, Giuseppe set up house among a group of scientists in nearby Abingdon...
Robert D. Swezey, Jr. '62-3, the producer, described the work as a "chamber opera" with five singing roles and ten solo instruments in the orchestra. Cole's libretto represents a fusion of historical material on two fourth century saints, one of whom was a harlot before she was converted...
...work is admired even by Japanese poets who have little understanding or sympathy for his Christian faith. "Tetsu's versification is in the best of the haiku tradition." says Yatsuka Ishiwara. who is the president of Tokyo's Contemporary Haiku Society. "It is a lovely fusion of East and West...
Where, then, can this vast amount of energy come from? Hoyle and Fowler rule out hydrogen fusion and other nuclear reactions that go on in the sun. Such reactions do not take place suddenly enough, or provide enough energy. The only reasonable remaining source of energy is gravitation, which can grow incredibly strong when a very large amount of matter is gathered together. This energy is released when something happens that permits a large mass of material to fall toward a center of gravitational attraction...
Patriotism has long existed, either as applied to a locality or as extended to an empire. But the fusion of patriotism with nationality and the predominance of national patriotism over all other human loyalties-which is nationalism-is modern, very modern." The revolutions in America and France established the principle that the citizens of any state, if dissatisfied with the conduct of their society, have the right and power to install new leaders. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, proclaimed that "the principle of sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation: no body...