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Sulloway credits the active backing of Ernst Mayr, Director of the Museum for Comparative Zoology, Edward O. Wilson, professor of Biology, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of History of Science, for getting the project off to a successful start...
Died. Lord Howard Florey, 69, Oxford pathologist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Sir Alexander Fleming and Dr. Ernst Chain for isolating and developing penicillin; of a heart attack; in Oxford. Though penicillin was discovered by Fleming in 1928, the mold was considered little more than a biological curiosity for a decade until the Australia-born Florey and a team of Oxford researchers reduced it to a pure, yellowish powder that destroyed all kinds of bacteria, saving thousands of lives during World War II and untold millions since...
SCULPTURE SUrvival of the Wittiest Old artists rarely fade away. Instead, they keep producing, often with a wit and wisdom that grow stronger as the years pass by, despite the fact that their styles may seem passe. Two cases-in point are Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, remnants of the surrealist tide that swept Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Ernst, at 76, is exhibiting his lat est sculptures at the lolas Gallery in Paris. Magritte, who died last August at 68, is being honored in his native Brussels with a retrospective that in cludes eight new sculptures designed before...
...Ernst, he has been working in three dimensions ever since 1934, but his later sculptures have grown less spiky and beaky, more solid - and yet, elusive. His most recent series of massive limestone figures, which he Las been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous...
...diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda, is now planning to demolish his 19th century cathedral for similar reasons...