Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent, true, although work by Physicists Steven Weinberg of Harvard and Abdus Salam of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology suggests that Einstein's dream of a unified field theory may some day be realized. There is also a glimmer in the esoteric new work on such baffling mathematical concepts as "supergravity" and "twistors" of possibly achieving a union of Einstein's beloved relativity and the quanta that he so distrusted...
...Inflation: Who Is Hurt Worst?" [Jan. 15]: boo, hiss to the American Dream! My husband and I now find that even though we have obtained that hallowed ground called "the upper middle class" we are hard put to have meat on the table three times a week. We put off visits to the doctor. A family vacation nowadays is a joke. Most depressing is watching Congress continue to set up programs that we finance but cannot use because we "make too much money." So please tell us: What is the American Dream...
...abundant use of the country's magnificent silks and cashmeres but yields nothing to Maonotony. "Vroom!" he cries. "It's the shock that will be interesting. Why should I copy Mao collars when what they want is dresses from Paris? The Chinese have lost their suspicion, and dream of giving their clothes a Western image that will set China at the level of other nations...
...period might encourage all political elements to build a new national consensus that could eventually lead to a stable government. Bakhtiar's decision late last week to deal directly with Khomeini suggested that more death and bloodshed could possibly be averted and that Iran might conceivably begin to dream of peace and unity...
...between science and religion, seeming almost wistful to make a connection. Biblical fundamentalists may be happier with Jastrow's books than are his fellow scientists. He writes operatically: "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries...