Word: czechs
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...term psychoanalysis in 1896, when he was already 40. He had been driven by ambition from his earliest days and encouraged by his doting parents to think highly of himself. Born in 1856 to an impecunious Jewish family in the Moravian hamlet of Freiberg (now Pribor in the Czech Republic), he moved with the rest of a rapidly increasing brood to Vienna. He was his mother's firstborn, her "golden Siggie." In recognition of his brilliance, his parents privileged him over his siblings by giving him a room to himself, to study in peace. He did not disappoint them. After...
Kurt Godel was born in 1906 in Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic, to a father who owned a textile factory and had a fondness for logic and reason and a mother who believed in starting her son's education early. By age 10, Godel was studying math, religion and several languages. By 25 he had produced what many consider the most important result of 20th century mathematics: his famous "incompleteness theorem." Godel's astonishing and disorienting discovery, published in 1931, proved that nearly a century of effort by the world...
...Recent Commencement speakers include Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...
Recent Commencement speakers include MaryRobinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rightsand former President of Ireland, U.S. Secretary ofState Madeleine K. Albright, Harold Varmus,director of the National Institutes of Health,Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, andVice President Al Gore...
...those of you who missed the production of Vaclav Havel's 1965 play The Memorandum at the Ex this past Weekend, you should forever regret missing the chance to learn the intricacies and contours of Ptydepe. Junior Martin Hostetler's adaptation of now-Czech-President Havel's madcap satirical comedy was, for the most part, dead-on. The play itself, essentially a lampoon of modern bureaucracy based on the introduction of a scientifically engineered language, "Ptydepe," into a truly bizarre office space, is remarkably relevant to 20-somethings caught up in today's corporate America. Because Havel's material...