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...settling back into the familiar patterns of work, family and school. Listening to their nostalgic tales of Stockholm love affairs, or bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with distaste: "By 19, most of them are satisfied little bourgeois." But the most plaintive and perceptive lament came from a parent in Denmark: "I sometimes...
...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. The author, who formerly concentrated on an agonized view of political epicycles, discusses cosmology from Ptolemy to Newton...
...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. Anti-Communist Koestler takes a new tack, provides an animated lecture on the cosmologists who changed men's view of the heavens, including Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo...
...conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
What mankind now needs, Author Koestler strongly implies, is a great sleepwalker who could resolve the tragic and longstanding schism between science and faith. Otherwise, he fears, science will become simply "the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain...