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...that the scientific community may have found its voice at last.No matter the flaws of the intelligent design argument, human beings like simple answers, and the established scientific community has yet to oblige. Olson and his film aspire to act as liaisons between the “pointy-headed intellectuals?? Olson grew up with and the distinctly round-headed public.“It’s not a very cerebral movie,” Olson said of “Flock of Dodos.” “It kind of comes from the heart, from...
...Whatever you do, don’t describe us as ‘cowboy intellectuals??,” Nick L. Tsang ’07 says. “Don’t make us sound weird...
...Theater as “the most rewarding theater experience I’ve had.” The evolution of the group, he says, has been enhanced by actors who “started to realize how fun it was to have kids rather than jaded Cambridge intellectuals?? in the audience. And it seems “A Tale of Two Cities” might have enough goofy appeal to turn a jaded Cambridge intellectual into a sated Cambridge intellectual—and a giggling one at that...
...translated to today’s dollars, that comes out to about $190,000).Dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok was ultimately selected from a final group of 23 aspirants from the three target groups of the Committee: internal candidates, external academic leaders, and prominent intellectuals??including public servants and government officials. After Pusey’s lack of concern with the student body, Bok’s vision and tact were a welcome change.Unlike many of his predecessors, Bok exited with little controversy after a successful 20-year tenure.Following Bok’s long...
...America as the epitome of a modernity they feared and scorned, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Sigmund Freud, Frances Trollope to Charles Dickens. There were exceptions, of course. Karl Marx voiced his outspoken support of the Union in its struggle against the Confederacy, and a few social democratic and liberal intellectuals??in the European sense—expressed favorable views of the United States. But on the whole, negative views predominated among Europe’s elites, regardless of country or political conviction...