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...struggle against the perversity of inanimate objects, man seldom emerges victorious. But on two fronts there shines a glimmer of hope...
...longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week's story was also a brain-stretching experience. "General relativity blows your mind," reports Jaroff. "What we set out to do was to give mil lions of intelligent readers a glimmering of what relativity is, and what it was that led Einstein to it." glimmer is the latest in a long series of illuminating articles Jaroff and his staff have offered readers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse awards have recognized those efforts. TIME Correspondent Peter Stoler...
...some extent, true, although work by Physicists Steven Weinberg of Harvard and Abdus Salam of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology suggests that Einstein's dream of a unified field theory may some day be realized. There is also a glimmer in the esoteric new work on such baffling mathematical concepts as "supergravity" and "twistors" of possibly achieving a union of Einstein's beloved relativity and the quanta that he so distrusted...
...theme, to come out in the last year. In this movie, James Bridges (director of "Paper Chase") takes a look at the day James Dean died in order to explore the cult that grew up around him. It is a fascinating idea for a film, and there was a glimmer of hope that a side of the '50s which is hardly ever seen in films might actually be explored. But Bridges constantly refuses to take the Dean cultists seriously. The film follows a college student on the day Dean died, follows him through his torment over Dean's death which...
...there with the most wanton exercises of filmed violence marking Jaws and The French Connection), and he winds up in the ward for the criminally insane. Like some Hieronymus Bosch painting suddenly come to life, the ward makes the rest of Sagmalcilar seem like Allenwood in comparison. Any glimmer of self-respect and dignity has been apparently extinguished in Billy Hayes as he wanders zombie-like among the blubbering semblances of human beings that populate the ward...