Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that promise kisses or threaten bloodied noses. Sudden death and marlin fishing are the he-man business of Captain Harry Morgan: and both are Bogart...
...rise of modern science, with the new knowledge of biology, philosophy, human nature, and the cosmos--although not itself in direct conflict with Religion--had certain implicit assumptions in conflict with the Christian world-view. This resulted in a lack of dynamism in the churches themselves and consequently a lack of emphasis at Harvard as elsewhere...
...popular with physicists was a view derived from quantum mechanics, which holds that the universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that behave, individually, as if they were governed by mere chance. Einstein does not accept this. "I cannot believe," he remarked, "that God plays dice with the cosmos...
...mental and spiritual forces as well ... Man can now see himself as the sole agent of further evolutionary advance on this planet, and one of the few possible instruments of progress in the universe at large. He need no longer regard himself as insignificant in relation to the cosmos. He is intensely significant...
...magazine lives up to its name in its main feature, "Our Mighty Old Cosmos," a parody of Life's recent unlocking of the secrets of creation. Though not particularly subtle, John Updike's lampoon hits Life in its soft underbelly of complacency, and at its breathless wonder at the scope of its own accomplishments. The text of the parody, while not particularly applicable to the article in question, is a clever-enough adaptation of Time-style: "Earth then (156 billion B.C.) was barren, cold, lonely, dull." On the whole the satire is a clever idea, competently done...