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...things stand, students of the universe use Relativity mathematics and atomists use Quantum Mechanics. Princeton's Einstein has promised to devote the rest of his life to the search for and the formulation of a Unified Field Theory which will encompass all Nature. He has laid promising foundations (TIME, July 15, 1935). Other work on the problem has been done by Britain's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, German Exile Max Born, France's Elie Cartan. Last week another approach was suggested by Dr. George David Birkhoff of Harvard...
...fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt's memoirs have an almost symphonic symmetry: they begin at the moment of the Empire's greatest strength and trace its collapse in the swirl of defeats, treacheries, frustrations, massed chances, which followed one another faster than the imagination could encompass them...
...Vagabond--being the sensitive soul that he is--has sickened of depressions.... nations in distress.... political speeches.... Italian forces (and barbers)--English diplomacy.... and even Haile Selassie's umbrella. His frail mind cannot encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place. Today, therefore, he resorts to that old escape--one frowned upon by maladjusted psychologists--to barken to those gentle soul who "tell tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is thrusting itself forward to a dismal future the Vagabond is thrusting himself back upon an epic...
...desperate struggle to encompass the Fine Arts in three short lectures every week for nine months brings forth an almost healthy baby. The facts which he has learned about, painting, sculpture, and architecture, make him amazingly precocious; he always impresses suitably his father's friends. But like most babies he is unable to sort out the facts which he has garnered and allot them their proper rank Possibly he is a bit superficial...
Miss McCormic, handsomely gowned, as the boys say, has an attractive voice which she uses without particular strain to encompass songs like "My Hero" and this being Boston, "Come Back to Erin," and "Macushla...