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Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting...
Red Is for Danger. The one quality Klee would not tolerate was vagueness. He contrived an elaborate visual lexicon in which he "explained" his favorite devices (dots, lines, arrows, planes) and assigned to each a meaning according to its direction or placement. But, as in Fire Wind (opposite), little more...
Intellectual Exercise. Today's sport, says Irving De Koff, coach of Columbia University's defending co-champions (along with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions...
"Small-Size Adult." According to Flesch, the basic flaw in the system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any...
The time was 1937. The place: Paris. Both men were Communist functionaries. Koestler, in fact, had just been sprung from a Franco prison and, as a liberal martyr, was welcomed with flowers at the Gare du Nord. But by then Comrade Koestler had already changed ideological trains. The moment had...