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Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...
...Slow, More Surely. In large part it would reflect the careful personality of Tom Dewey himself. It was just that thought which had caused the real opposition to his nomination. Though nearly all Republicans respected him for his administrative skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise...
...Invention. For fast measurement, Booth worked out a system of eight mirrors to reflect all sides of the customer. By focusing the camera on a panel of four mirrors, he was able to get four reflected views on one film: front, rear, side and one from directly overhead. The film is projected on a screen, half lifesize. Tailors read the measurements from the calibrated screen. The measurements are then fed into another Booth invention: the Photo-Metric calculator...
Most of Thomas Alva Edison's diary is like this day's extract-an approach to all & sundry on a one-track even keel. Like his neat, snug handwriting, which seems exactly to reflect him, Edison's way of life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison...
...described the hollow shell of a vanished culture, and done it literally. "The important things today," he says, "are first the chaos, murder, rape and war in the world; and second, the spirit of scientific inquiry, the interest in atoms and cellular growth." He thinks his new paintings reflect a little of the science, if not of the chaos...