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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Disturbing the Universe is a fair indication, Dyson spent the first twenty pages of his life as a child, the next eighty as a pure scientist, and the bulk of it, the final 150, as an ill-defined political spokesman, a defender of this and a believer in that...

Author: By Jaime O. Aisenberg, | Title: A Minor Disturbance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

If the first half of Disturbing the Universe is largely his scientific autobiography, the second is his somewhat disjointed account of what must have been a disjointed later career. Why should a man of such acknowledged brilliance lead his professional life thus--first working with atomic energy, then space missions...

Author: By Jaime O. Aisenberg, | Title: A Minor Disturbance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Behind this action lay his scientific hero--Matthew Meselson, who inspired Nixon's move. And it is for him that Dyson reserves his greatest praise. "Seldom in history has one man, armed only with the voice of reason, won so complete a victory," he says. And Meselson is not the...

Author: By Jaime O. Aisenberg, | Title: A Minor Disturbance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

If anything brings the world down it will be those redneck conservatives who feel they have a monopoly on the truth. Fanatics, like the ones described in the article, scare me more than a "Commie takeover."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Your feature on the Freedom Festival angers me-not because you ran the article, but because such groups as the Christian-Patriots Defense League exist at all and have the gall to use the name Christian. This league can only be Christian if Christ said, "Shoot those who hate you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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