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...content with nothing." "God's" answer is the answer of Sweden's Par Lagerkvist in his story The Eternal Smile. Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerkvist (age 63) is the author of more than 35 books, including the novels Bar abbas and The Dwarf, and scores of plays, essays and poems. His tone ranges from near-ecstasy to heavy gloom, but in one matter he is always consistent-the conviction that a world that is filled to bursting with pain, joy, bewilderment and dissatisfaction is just what God intended...
...Popper studied the faint "white dwarf" star, 40 Eridani B, which is 40% as heavy as the sun but only about as big as Mars. Its high concentration of mass forms a powerful gravitational field at the star's surface, where its light comes from. Besides, 40 Eridani B is a member of a double-star system, which allows its speed to be measured accurately...
After analyzing 37 spectrograms of his star's light, Dr. Popper found that its wave lengths are, as he had hoped, slightly longer than is normal. This meant that white-dwarf time really does run slow, just as Einstein predicted. The difference is not much. A man living on 40 Eridani B would fall behind by about six earthly seconds...
...nightmarish mysticism. In some ways, Fuseli bridges the gap between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems as modern as Dali or Freud. Despite his inescapable similarity to his great friend ("Blake," he once said, "is damned good to steal from"), Fuseli speaks to the U.S. audience in his own peculiar and terrifying...
...layman in the field, many of the Museum's exhibits verge upon the spectacular. Twenty-five foot totem poles dwarf the onlooker in the hall of Indian ethnology; in the Bowditch Hall of Middle American culture, huge casts of Mayan, statuary tower two floors in height. On Peabody's top floor, the skull of Mt. Carmel Man, the only Paleolithic man on exhibit in the United States, sits staring moodily at his bones in case across the hall. Not far away stands the Museum's ample collection of shrunken and mummified human beads, calculated to surprise even the most hardened...