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...treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Professor Tillich cites Hegel fourteen times, and Russell not once. If England's greatest living philosopher were aware...
...fully intended to make science my life-work," he said in his autobiography. "I did not, for the simple reason that at that time Harvard, and I suppose our other colleges, utterly ignored the possibilities of the faunal naturalist, the outdoor naturalist and observer of nature. They treated biology as purely a science of the laboratory and the microscope, a science whose adherents were to spend their time in the study of minute forms of marine life or else in section-cutting and the study of the tissues of the higher organisms under the microscope...
...circumstances of Einstein's death seem particularly fitting, the newspaper descriptions of him as "the man who made the atomic bomb possible" seem grossly inappropriate. To be sure, the Theory of Relativity did provide the theoretical basis for nuclear fission. But if there was anything that Einstein's life-work opposed, it was the bomb. A leader in warning of the weapon's destructive potential, Einstein championed total world disarmament to prevent its further use. He early cited the danger of radiation poisoning, and commented in 1945, when told of the Hiroshima bombing, "the world is not ready...
...Department estimates that approximately one-half of the men who are graduated in it go into Anthropology as their life-work. For those who are thinking of doing this, the field offers as fine & department as will be discovered in the country...
...Museum. What's more, a prime version of another historymaker, Brancusi's abstract sculpture, Bird in Space, alighted in the same spot. These headliners were just a part of one of the most superb School-of-Paris collections ever made, the 1,000-item, $2,000,000 life-work of Walter Arensberg, 72, rich California scholar, and his wife Louise. Their collection, which fills their servantless Los Angeles house from floor to ceiling (and which includes pre-Columbian sculpture), will move to Philadelphia as soon as the museum readies 19 new rooms...