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...broke out between England and France. The vapors had so beneficent an effect that the combatants fell asleep for three hours, awoke to a world without war and began building a Utopia of socialism and love. In contrast, there is the bleak view of Psychologist turned Amateur Geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky. In his bestselling 1950 book Worlds in Collision-which is regarded as gospel by many mystics but as science fiction by most scientists-Velikov-sky blamed a near miss by a comet for such biblical events as the parting of the Red Sea and the plagues of Egypt. The fate...
...Immanuel Velikovsky, scientist and author of World's in Collision will deliver a speech tonight at 8 p.m. entitled "My Star Witnesses." The speech, sponsored by the society of Harvard Engineers and Scientist will be in Lowell Lecture Hall and Admission is free...
...quarrel with the N.E.B. rendering of Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V. helped pave the way for such a change two decades ago by translating the Hebrew almah as "young woman" (elsewhere in the Bible it is used to describe young women who are clearly not virgins). Even the Jerusalem Bible, a Roman Catholic project, uses "maiden...
...that none of Immanuel Velikovsky's number of books are curiously absent from Harvard's collection? Could it be because Velikovsky launches a plausible attack against some of the scientists most cherished Darwinist theories? J. Cooper Dorchester
...early as Friday, faculty and administration members expressed the fear that police would have to do a great deal of damage in order to get the demonstrators out of the buildings. Immanuel Wallerstein, a professor of sociology, said that if police were called onto the campus, the University would be "burned down...