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...story begins back in 1948 when Batteau and Warren Seaman, now Assistant Director of the Harvard Computation Lab, used to spend their spare time poring over reams of science fiction. The two, along with a few other avid fans, would speculate on the feasibility of such fanciful things as computing machines, automatic "brains," space rockets, and other amusing "toys." Campbell often joined in the "bull sessions," as Batteau calls them...
...current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
Since a large part of his repertory is devoted to music long since committed to his, and most listeners', memory, Von Karajan has also found leisure to become an avid sportsman, often slips off for a week of skiing in the Alps or an afternoon's spin in a rented light plane or a glider. In all these pastimes, as in music, he luxuriates in what he calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede...
...York Herald Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...
...professor scoffs, "He's groping for a comprehensive theory of the universe with Newton's Principia as his ideal." A social relations tutor observes, "His followers are as avid as Marxists." And Pravda replies, "He's a tool of capitalistic warmongers." But while the scholarly tempest brews, Professor of Sociology Talcott Parsons answers for himself--"Heavens, let's not go off the deep...