Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis quite as informal as that of the fabled Mark Hopkins and the student on the other end of the log. It consists in easy, familiar discussions be tween a fictional businessman, Sam, and his librarian friend, George. As the series opens they are waiting for something tall and cool at the 19th hole...
When you hear the conductor swinging down the aisle chanting in that peculiar manner reserved for train conductors, Woodsole! Woodsole!," you will know that it is time to change from train coach to cool, windswept steamer deck is certainly a refreshing one, calculated to make you quickly forget about those unloved physics problems or the mad conclusion of Harvard Square...
Other American troops have moved into our district, and we gave them a very cool reception, but it has gradually dawned on us that it's only the minority which behaves badly, and that all along we've been judging the whole by the actions...
...lordly dweller in the remote, cool, abstract world of mathematics, Einstein inspires in ordinary earthlings something of the awe which would greet a visitor from Mars. But a new biography by a member of his household (Einstein-An Intimate Study of a Great Man) ; Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), published this week, suggests that another secret of his fame may be his vast and simple humanity...
...Einstein is almost unvaryingly gentle, even-tempered, meekly obedient-and impersonal. He has never tried to explain relativity to his family. His scientific life is strictly solitary. When, as often happens even at mealtimes, he falls into long mathematical reveries, his family is careful not to disturb him. This cool detachment extends even to his closest personal relationships. When his wife died eight years ago, Einstein turned stoically "from her bedside, said quietly: "Bury...