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...task undertaken by the Foundation...was by no means easy or immediately popular," Bok recounted in a letter to the Foundation at its 20th anniversary. "Without a doubt, the experiment has succeeded beyond anyone’s legitimate explanations...
...that changes when you have an enormous, linguistically monoclonal immigration as we do today from Latin America. Then you get not Brooklyn's successful Babel but Canada's restive Qubec. Monoclonal immigration is new for the U.S., and it changes things radically. If at the turn of the 20th century, Ellis Island had greeted teeming masses speaking not 50 languages but just, say, German, America might not have enjoyed the same success at assimilation and national unity that...
DIED. Slim Aarons, 89, photographer of socialites, princes and stars who created for magazines, including LIFE and Town and Country, some of the most iconic images of the 20th century; in Montrose, N.Y. After serving as a combat photographer during World War II, Aarons determined to devote the rest of his career to chronicling, in his words, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Among the best-known images: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing conspiratorially in a 1957 photo called The Kings of Hollywood, left, which Smithsonian magazine called the "Mount Rushmore of stardom...
Kenneth G. Wilson ’56 was part of the generation of scientists who revolutionized physics in the 1970s and confirmed the quantum theories of physicists from the early 20th century including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein.Wilson won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national...
...don’t give a lot of credibility to the notion that the questions social scientists and historians are asking today are better than they were in the 20th or 19th century,” he says...