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As the "discoverer" of evolution, Darwin, surprisingly enough, lacked Huxley's brilliance and his ability to reason quickly. Yet Darvin's own slowness and tenacity were qualities admirably suited to the task of gradually, almost unconsciously, developing an idea. Huxley's more piercing intellect moved from subject to subject, a...
So Little Time. For most of the past quarter-century, Brazil's public life was dominated by the towering figure of Getulio Vargas, a man of flawed greatness who ruled at times as a dictator, at times as a constitutional President, but at all times as the enigmatic, subtle...
Of all Wilde's works, the comedies stand up best (The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance). It is still impossible not to smile when Wilde seizes upon some normally dismal aspect of human relations and translates it faithfully and accurately into the language of comedy...
If a client has mathematicians of his own, he can take home a "patch panel": a metal rectangle containing hundreds of small, marked holes. By connecting the proper holes with plug-in wires, he translates his problem into language that the computer can understand. When the panel is inserted in...
As for love, which Menninger accused him of ignoring, Kinsey asked: "How can you measure love? Nobody knows how to approach it scientifically. We shall never write about love, but that doesn't mean that I as an individual don't recognize its value." On the allegation that...