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...being felt. Heisenberg has recently used it to argue against constructing even bigger (and more expensive) atom smashers on the ground that little more of a fundamental nature can be learned of the sub-nuclear world. In his controversial book The Coming of the Gold en Age, Molecular Biologist Gunther Stent brashly assumes that all basic questions in his field are either solved or close to solution. He also thinks that all scientific progress is fast approaching the point of diminishing returns. Man will never know how the universe began or what is the most fundamental of atomic particles...
...time when the masculine hero is joining other endangered species, Hoagland looks to the circus, "the last place left where somebody can teeter on the brink of death and the crowd won't yell 'Jump!'" He finds his hero in Gunther Gebel-Williams, an animal trainer with an instinctive ability to orchestrate big cats into tawny fugues. To Hoagland, Gebel-Williams seems "to live in a state of direct gaiety." Unlike Clyde Beatty, for example, he does not conquer his animals crudely but controls them with a lover's touch...
...prisoners, who are mostly men of science, are all supposed to be working on a project ordered personally by Stalin: a tap-proof phone. But one of their number, Gleb Nerzhin (Gunther Malzacher), keeps finding the time to steal off to a supply closet with one of the warders, Simochka (Elzbieta Czyzewska). "I'd like to leave you with my child," he breathes, lunging for her tunic. "Monday," she shudders, dying to surrender herself but trying also to cope with a pesky short-wave radio that crackles away on a nearby table, summoning her to report. Such sequences evoke...
...GUNTHER BIENES...
...Each year he has set aside up to $100,000 and, through his Fromm Music Foundation, parceled it out in commissions to an international Who's Who of composers: Milton Babbitt, Alberto Ginastera, Alan Hovhaness, Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe -some 90 names in all. Composer Gunther Schuller describes Fromm as "the single most important benefactor in the field of contemporary music...