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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...summers spent on the Maine Coast, were full of the contradictory pulls and thrusts of the sea, the wind and the land. "Seems to me," he once wrote, "that the true artist must perforce go from time to time to the elemental big forms -Sky, Sea, Mountain, Plain ... to sort of re-true himself...
...Bertha could be leveled against those stubborn areas of complacency which ideas could not infiltrate. War swept the world of many of its illusions, delusions, and ideals, leaving behind--in the sensitive areas--small groups of "The Lost Generation" conversing aimlessly around the tables of the Cafe Dome. Some sort of bottom in disillusion of man with himself was reached with the publication of "The Waste Land...
...that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had done it and Planck could not do it either-until, in a sort of desperation, he assumed that light does not flow in a smooth stream, as everyone supposed, but in tiny, indivisible bursts...
...clumsy atoms or even protons or electrons. Out of their discovery grew Einstein's relativity, including his historic proof, not then considered fraught with danger to civilization, that matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron planets which jump from orbit to orbit emitting quanta of light. Out of it developed the quantum theory, to laymen more arcane than the inner reaches of medieval theology; the quantum theory reduces solid matter to "waves of probability." Out of it blossomed the atomic bomb...