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...Open Universe attacks Einstein's theory of determinism, which holds that with a sophisticated enough scientific approach, man can explain and predict all occurences. But the argument only rarely appears dated. Popper proves that classical theory can never fulfill the objectives of the traditional philosophers--from Spinoza, Hobbes and Hume to Kant, Schopenhauer, and J.S. Mill--because it lends itself, through inaccuracy, to randomness and unpredictability. In this way, he buttresses quantum theory, which incorporates randomness as a principle. Einstein had often attacked this with his famous "God does not play dice with the Universe...
...HUME ALEXANDER HORAN...
MARRIED: Nancy Jane Reinert, April 2, 1960 (Radcliffe, '58; HRPBA Cert., '59). CHILDREN: Alexander Hume, 1963; Margaret Robinson, 1965; Jonathan Theodore...
Foxfire. Those who hew to goodness and revere the customs of their forebears are rarely met with on a New York stage. Here they are in this tale of Appalachian tenacity, fashioned by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. And who better to memorialize their griefs and joys than Cronyn and Jessica Tandy? Good. How does a liberal-minded German classics professor become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz? In C.P. Taylor's play, the gifted Alan Howard makes the insidious slope to hell plausible and harrowing...
...think of that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called a "hillbilly Our Town," which is close to the mark. And even those with less than a lifetime's acquaintance with the work of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy must know that this pair could strike songs from stones...