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...Daedalus, the scientific journal whose readers and contributing writers include U.S. Presidents and Nobel Prize laureates alike, and which is published quarterly by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, began as nothing more than a name, says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Gerald Holton...
...Daedalus warned his son Icarus not to fly too high, or the sun would melt his waxen wings. But the boy, intoxicated with flight, soared above his cautious father. In the clear blue sky, the warmth of the sun dissolved his delicate wings, causing him to plunge to his death in the green sea below. The myth of Icarus is used to illustrate the ancient Greek word hubris, a term for the overweening human pride and vanity that often result in tragedy...
Axel quickly falls for a wealthy widow named Elaine (Faye Dunaway). Like Daedalus escaping from Crete, Axel builds endless air machines at her insistence. The numerous crash scenes range from dumb to dumber. Though there's hardly a wrinkle on Dunaway's face and her figure is curvaceous, her Elaine clutches beauty like an iron mask, with quickly spoken words and twitchy mannerisms...
Even Germany, the most prosperous and successful of the European welfare states, suffers ill effects from her social policies. Kurt J. Lauk has noted in Daedalus that the unemployment benefits for a married German male worker with two children amount to 71 percent of his previous net income...
Dedicated to everyone spending long hours in Sanders Theatre listening to Historical Studies A-12 lectures, a passage from an article in the recent Daedalus on arms control. The author? Joe Nye, of course...