Word: bohr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DANIEL ELLSBERG, 40, one of the authors of the documents he has made public, is a nervous, intense and brilliant man. He is seen by his associates as possessing the mind of a Niels Bohr and the soul of a tortured Dostoevsky hero. As a former Pentagon colleague put it: "Dan would have been an excellent Jesuit in another time. He has a perfect logical mind and an unbending sense of morality." Ellsberg was for a time one of those faceless bureaucrats who sit at the fulcrum of decision making and are privy to the most guarded information...
Alexander Rodchenko, whose works include a chess table (in the Carpenter Center show at Harvard) and a spatial structure not unlike Bohr's model of the atom, is currently in a small exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His were some of the first works constructed of actual movement; MOMA's show exhibits his later fascination with photography where he transformed even a simple stack of wood into a spatial statement...