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Also entertaining are two short portraits, one of Albert Einstein, the other of Robert Goddard. Broca's Brain was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth, and the chapter Sagan devotes to him is reflective of the event, brimming with amusing anecdotes and quotes. The portrait of...
On the religious front, he fares little better. Debates on the existence of God, he writes cavalierly, are "good fun." And at the end of the book he discusses the need to apply his rigid scientific criteria to all schools of belief, reviving the Victorian controversy. If inaccuracies are found...
Geoffrey did not ask where the money came from, as he did not pry into his father's suspect background. The stakes were too high. As a child he based his own legitimacy on his father's identity; if his father did not exist, neither did he. So, he blindly...
Acting on the advice of a Harvard attorney, the masters cracked down because they risk prosecution under the higher drinking age laws if they allow happy hours, William H. Bossert '59, master of Lowell House, said recently.
And soon, the Kingdom's scribes came to count the bodies so they could record the battle in the histories of the Court. And they counted that King Joseph's men had killed 26,000, while the Green Meanies had killed but 10,000. But in the writing there was...