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GALILEO, by Bertolt Brecht. When Brecht testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, they asked him if he had ever been a communist. "No, no, no, never, no," he replied. Eppur si mueve. Opens tonight, 7:30 at the Loeb...
...witness the accomplishment of the feat. But this should not upset us too much. Remember that Gerald Heard, in his brilliant book Is Another World Watching?, proved conclusively that flying saucers are manned by insects. Remember too that scientists have again and again proven that the bumblebee cannot fly; "eppur' si muove" ("and still it moves"), as Galileo reputedly said in another connection...
...Eppur si muove ("Nevertheless, it does move...
...until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick old man scared into recantation...
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