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...course, Natural Sciences 11a, part of the General Education program which President Conant himself helped to bring into being, originated from his long-standing belief that the scientist, his role, and his methods are misunderstood by the layman...
Last week another Soviet scientist was cowering under an ideological hurricane stirred up by an anti-Lysenko reference he had made in the U.S. weekly, Science, nearly two years...
Unsightly Role. Pravda soon joined the attack. What annoyed Pravda most: Zhebrak's heretical belief that there is no difference between Soviet and non-Soviet science.* "Zhebrak as a Soviet scientist," cried Pravda, "should have unmasked the class meaning of the struggle which is taking place around questions of genetics. But blinded by bourgeois prejudices, by detestable fawning on bourgeois science, he has adopted the attitude of the enemy's camp. . . . It turns out that there is a so-called pure science for Zhebrak. . . . It appears that there is no progressive Soviet biological science; there is no reactionary...
...play that is just two hours long should not attempt to do too much, and this one tries unsuccessfully to combine serious thinking about the problems of a modern, liberal scientist with a pixie-like humor derived from having a character play the scientist's mind. Raymond Massey, as the former, reads the New Republic and for three acts carefully compares the validity of his duties to his family and to the world. Meanwhile an assortment of bad and middling actors walk in and out, dramatizing the arguments each way. This sort of thing begins to be terribly tedious toward...
...eccentricities, "How I Wonder" tries very hard to be honest. The scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems...