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John Wesley Harding represents for Dylan a quantum jump in style from what he was doing before he dropped out of sight. The unexpected discontinuity requires an explanation. The new record is haunted by tramps and prophets, robber-chieftains and gypsies, called forth one by one in solemn incantation. However, these particular outcasts of society are unlike, and handled differently from, the junkies and petulant girls who used to trouble Dylan...
Harvard's last two winners were in 1965, when Julian S. Schwinger won in physics and Robert B. Woodward in chemistry. Schwinger earned his award with his pencil, resolving a contradiction between relativity theory and quantum mechanics. Woodward was cited for synthesizing several complex chemicals, including chlorophyll and cortisone...
...dawn. After Abram's death, the problem sister marries her beatnik lover. The other sister decides that she will bear a son with her father's name-"It was all I could do in this world-all I could hope to do." Almost any death has a quantum of emotion, but because Author Gerber writes from a self-pitying, self-absorbed point of view, she grabs most of it for herself...
...intently. "Science, unlike theology," Rabi argued, "questions its own bases all along. It is a developing thing and, of itself, is revolutionary. And, as such, it particularly fits our time." He noted how early 19th century scientists thought that Newtonian mechanics explained everything, how early 20th century scientists saw quantum mechanics as all-encompassing, how the ever unraveling discoveries of nuclear physics forever destroyed absolutes in science. "Science," he said, "is like one of those old English country houses which is never finished, is continually being added...
Died. J. Robert Oppenheimer, 63, renowned wartime atomic physicist and center of a subsequent storm over his loyalty; after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. Tall, thin and reserved, the son of German immigrants, Oppenheimer was a pioneer student of relativity and quantum theory at Caltech in 1943 when he was called upon to lead the Los Alamos scientists in their race to give the U.S. the world's first nuclear weapon. It was a task he discharged brilliantly, and then in peacetime, as chief adviser to the A.E.G., turned around to argue bitterly against carrying on with...