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...sources of popular folklore than the discovery of great scientific laws, and so it befits the hyperseriousness of the apostles of this creed to spread the influence of their theories. Joining the tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur B. Laffer, an upstart economics professor from California, Louis Lehrman, and Wall Street Journal editorialist Jude Wanniski were finishing their drinks...
...year-old case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies, may soon be resolved. Isaac, who has charged the University with discrimination stemming from his failure to receive tenure in 1975, met last Sunday with Daniel Steiner, general counsel to the University, to propose a way of ending the dispute. Neither side revealed details, but Isaac said this week, "It looks like a major change; at least it's a light in the window...
...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...
Mstislav Rostropovich was there, wrapping his cello in a warm Russian bear hug as he dashed off two movements of a Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony...
...Like the greatest symphonic organizations, it has a noble tradition and a distinctive sound. Its home-town appeal extends from the white-haired ladies who sip cranberry juice at intermission of the Friday afternoon concerts to the young physicists and computer scientists who fill the hall on Saturday evening. Isaac Stern, in a birthday greeting, was right when he called it "a great Boston tradition that continues to enrich our nation...