Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short stories were available in book form. Editor Joseph Blotner has rounded up 45 more, 14 of them previously unpublished anywhere. The book as a whole rarely reaches the brilliance sustained throughout Faulkner's Collected Stories (1950). No matter. Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler...
...tenant, Shelly Glashow, is one of the three recipients of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. Had you glanced to your right some ten yards back, you would have been looking into the anteroom of the office of one of the others, Professor Steven Weinberg. His office is much like what you'd expect from a university big wig--carpeting, bound journals and paneling lend it an aura of the esoteric altogether absent in his neighbor...
...begin to understand these contributions, you have to hark back as far as the beginning of the twentieth century, to the year Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity. This momentous theory ggested briefly two important things: first, that matter in space, and space itself, are intimately connected; and second, that time should constitute an integral, fourth dimension, unlike in Newtonian physics where it is an independent parameter. Einstein proposed that the future of physics lay in the reduction of all of its laws to these geometrical, "space-time," propositions...
...hard to believe that a theory so complex, so elusive, could conceivably reflect the simplicity of nature? For this Glashow harbors no tolerance. "It's not complicated at all once you've been working with it for a while. Its beauty is its incredible simplicity." He drops his feet back on the floor, stokes his cigar, and begins to rock, Albert Einstein staring down over one shoulder, his charmed quark hovering over the other...
...collapse began on the third play of the second half, when Harvard quarterback Burke St. John's pass intended for Rich Horner went instead to Brown defensive back Woodrow Pugh who returned it to the Harvard 40-yd. line. "He threw it right at me," Pugh said afterwards...