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...temperature matched his mood as he launched into a bitter denunciation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, professing to see "a rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...important bureaucrat took these ideas a logical step farther, demanding an interest charge on capital and prices rooted in economic reality rather than planning fiction. Academician Vadim Trapeznikov, revered in Russia as the "father of Soviet automation," threw his weight in with the reformers all along the line, noting that "one hears the view that interest on capital is a concept of capitalistic society." Wrong, he insisted. "In fact, the form here is identical, but the essence is different...
...columns of praise for his enemies and critics. Soviet genetic laboratories openly dared to use Western ideas and methods. Lysenko's departure last week was marked by a speech by Mathematician Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the august Academy of Sciences. Said Keldysh: "The exclusive position held by Academician Lysenko must not continue. His theories must be submitted to free discussion and normal verification...
...undergraduates to commit themselves prematurely to a narrow area of study, and it can be argued that an undergraduate education deep and narrow is not the best preparation for the student who plans to make his career someplace outside the academy. It has even been argured that the future academician should have an undergraduate education which is something other than a preview of what he will get in graduate school, as much as should the future doctor, lawyer, or businessman...
...Nazis banned it because of its antiRomantic ring. And after the war, when Hindemith returned to Europe after 13 years in the U.S., he was widely considered a walking anachronism by the new musical revolutionaries. In youth, he had been called "the playboy." In age, he was "the academician." In more than 40 prolific years, he never won much of an audience...