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...While scientists are usually capable of understanding the language of the philosopher, the historian, and even the art critic, "the non-scientist cannot listen to the scientist with pleasure and understanding," he said. "But despite its universal outlook and its unifying principle, its splendid tradition, science seems no longer communicable to the great majority of educated laymen," he observed...
...effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more than an overtone of Rupert Brooke about him, and 2) goes through a loveless marriage with Billy Pascoe, a lowly rustic who becomes England's greatest atomic scientist...
Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis. One scientist who is deeply interested in analysis of the spirit is Biologist Edmund W. Sinnott, dean of Yale's Graduate School. In his new book, The Biology of the Spirit (Viking; $3.50), Professor Sinnott tries to find some common foundation for the spiritual feelings of man and the facts about material life that have been discovered by biologists...
Last week Sylvester prescribed the appropriate beverage to go with reducing diets: "Lighter fluid." Sylvester can seldom resist a pun. He told about the vending machine that sells flowers and gives "change in peonies," and the vacationing scientist who posted a sign on his office, "Gone Fission." When the German Chancellor flew to Moscow, Sylvester wondered: "Due to time changes, did he have to Adenauer...
...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...