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...trod the maze of error round, Long wandering in the winding glade; And now the torch of truth is found, It only shows us where we strayed...
...that the unmathematically inclined reader may skip these without destroying the unity of the context. And this move has been well chosen, for despite the author's avowed aim to present a simple explanation of less technical aspects of relativity, the lay reader becomes quickly befuddled in a bewildering maze of abstract mathematical formulae. But if one discounts these two chapters, the work presents a warm and appealing picture of this modest, publicity dodging genius, whose efforts in the cause of international peace and tolerance have won him almost as much renown as his purely intellectual activity...
...mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building last week, curiously tucked away in a maze of advertising exhibits of home furnishings, a little gallery of architectural photographs made browsers perk up. To most features of the Home Beautiful, exemplified in the exhibit by a tasteless miscellany stuffed in fake "modern" interiors, these pictures gave the lie direct. They showed the actual and honestly beautiful buildings of an extraordinary architect, Antonin Raymond of Japan...
Unhappy the stranger in any of New York City's three subways. Equally lost are most natives in the maze of the city's 35-year-old transit troubles. Most New Yorkers long since decided what they wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp...
When new boards and positions creep into an organization, they are all too likely to create a bureaucratic maze of red tape and impede rather than facilitate smooth functioning. The New Deal may be justly criticized for an unfortunate tangling of bureaus, but certain of the new boards of the government are equally as justly to be praised, as necessary expansions in a widening sphere. Harvard's new creation of a Dean of the University may also be praised as a justified expansion of administrative agencies...