Word: alembert
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...Alembert wrote on mathematics, Turgot on economics, Quesnay on agriculture, Buffon on nature, Rousseau on music, and Montesquieu on taste. Diderot himself wrote on everything from intolerance and Spinoza to anagrams and onomancy-the "science" of telling a man's fortune by the letters in his name. He treated topics that intellectuals had been apt to ignore before. He spent hours studying iron foundries and gunpowder mills at first hand, imported workers from the factories of Lyons to help him with an article on the velvet trade...
...Fishy Sound. Dieckmann had a hunch that Diderot had never really destroyed the manuscript of his great philosophical dialogue, D'Alembert's Dream, though one contemporary declared that Diderot had burned it and another said he had torn it up. "The whole thing sounded fishy to me," says Dieckmann...
...School: Wolter Kessler scholarship, the Harvard Club of Indiana, ta Alembert W. Brayton, 3d, 2L, of Indian apolis, Indiana...
...recent novel has been advertised as "the book of the hour". First the newspaper, then the magazine, and last the novel, reached the stage where it is printed, read, and discarded, in an hour, figuratively speaking. D'Alembert once said "Write as if you lived for glory; act as if you were indifferent to it". But D'Alembert was old-fashioned. Now fame, "that last infirmity of noble mind", is becoming more and more infirm. The glory of literature is no more. Literature--can it be that literature itself, in the original sense of the word, is no more...