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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking a long, lingering glance into the future, Philippe Le Corbeillier, lecturer on Applied Physics, predicts in the May issue of Atlantic Monthly a complete solution of scientific problems, followed by a long stable period of world society...
Comparing our present knowledge of the universe with human knowledge about the earth just before the discovery of America, Le Corbeillier points out that just as no one then could predict the number of undiscovered continents, so today the realm of undiscovered scientific knowledge seems infinite...
However, an Le Corbeillier sees it, chemistry and physics will soon realize the final important facts about the structure of matter, possibly as soon as the end of the present century...
...Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
Alice in Wonderland (adapted from Lewis Carroll by Eva Le Gallienne & Florida Friebus; produced by Rita Hassan & the American Repertory Theater) was one of the pleasant offerings-and possibly pleasant surprises-made by Eva Le Gallienne's old Civic Repertory Theater during the '30s. Now it emerges as perhaps the pleasantest offering of Co-Director Le Gallienne's struggling new American Repertory Theater. In a clever stage version that includes the best of Through the Looking Glass-that indeed begins with Alice stepping through the looking glass rather than down the rabbit hole-much of Lewis Carroll...