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Richardson, who won the New York critics' award, treats his role with a remarkable restraint. Ridgeway is not a scientist himself; he is a single-minded industrialist who carries scientists, designers, and pilots along in the wake of his enthusiasm. He has no sympathy with failure or timidity, and although he suffers at his son-in-law's death, one feels that he considers it a cheap price for the ultimate gain. This is a difficult part to play. Some actors might make Ridgeway a bare, two-dimensional character, since Terrence Rattigan's script alone does not delineate him sufficiently...
Colonel Tibbets remarks once, parenthetically, that although he does not approve of mass atomic destruction, it is necessary to speed the ending of the war. One of the few less somber scenes in the film (and one based on an actual incident) has Mrs. Tibbets-mistaking an atomic scientist at Wendover for a sanitary engineer and having him repair some plumbing...
TEACHERS FIRED FOR DEFENDING FREEDOM in New York schools seek employment or business opportunities. Research workers, economists, linguist, scientist, mathematicians, artist, writers, tutors, office workers. Mature, graduate degrees. Will consider employment any field offering opportunity, growth and advancement...
...wanted the architect's education to prepare a man not only to design buildings but to "Take part as a legitimate equal with the engineer and the scientist in the conception, design, and execution of component parts of building...
There is also a change in the scientist's philosophical attitude towards his field. So-called dilemmas, such as the wave-particle controversy, have caused many scientists to shy from the logical empiricist view of interpreting each theory as a step nearer the "real" picture of the world. Conant abandons this view for a modern form of pragmatism in the William James tradition. Conceptual schemes, he feels, are policies, guides to action, not creeds, each bringing us close to the discovery of nature's laws...