Word: believerism
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Nobel had provided for the establishment of the Peace Prize in his will. Evidently, he was deeply troubled by the destruction caused by his invention of dynamite and smokeless gunpowder. Of all the 72 recipients of the prize since 1901, probably none comes closer than Sakharov to the spirit of...
DIETIES TO THE contrary notwithstanding, great writers are mortal: this is perhaps their greatest failing. When you've finished that last major Hardy novel, dug out the most forgotten Tolstoy short story, there is no more to look forward to. So it is with Jane Austen, the ultimate literary narcotic...
Smithies accepted tenure at Harvard in 1949--partly "so I could take up rowing again"--and continued to work at budgetary and fiscal economics. He also demonstrated an idiosyncratic kind of firmness--"I'm a believer in strict academic requirements, but for something important, like seat-races, I would make...
True Believer. Hess's nonconformist life-style leaves him plenty of time for thinking and writing. He offers no excuses for his philosophical flipflop, which he sees as a natural response to the growth of big government in America. "It's not just the war," he says. "I...
It is one of Hess's articles of faith that the Government should be radically reduced as well as reorganized. "I also think the public school system is a failure and prudent people should abandon it." Not by violence, however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois...