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Ochs' chosen instrument in his quest for excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...months of carefree study for 25 to 50 scholars at a time. Eventually the center would like to enhance the influence of the humanities in the same way that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study boosted the reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such geniuses as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr. Says Director Charles Frankel, a philosopher: "We want to stand up and show the power of the humanities." For Executive Officer William Bennett, Research Triangle Park is just the place to accomplish that goal. Says he: "The people here have sold not only an environment...
...study of human culture makes no sense. Indeed, sociobiology has significant implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches of sociobiology...
...idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, N.J.? A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif...
...masterwork. In Western eyes, the huge (10-ft. by 20-ft.) canvas seems to be little more than a pastiche, cast in gloomy black, blue and red tones. Mystery is made up of many of the century's famous figures-including Czar Nicholas II, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Franklin Roosevelt, Mao and Stalin, who is apparently dead, floating in a sea of blood. Says Glazunov: "It is a work of philosophical realism that reflects the ideas of humanity...