Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...
...with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
...binding upon the faithful from the moment they are issued. The controversy which followed Cardinal van Roey's letter became so heated that ...he submitted his views to the Pope. From Pius XI the Cardinal last week received assurance that his teachings are completely in line with modern papal encyclicals...
...novels of Henry de Montherlant are characterized by a strange air of scatterbrained earnestness. One of the wittiest of modern French writers, he gets his effects, like an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...
...campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where he had had so many triumphs. Until the end of his life he detested industrialism in all its forms, was driven frantic by noise, and in the depths of his despair and hatred of the modern world cried out: "Come back to us once more oh dream of the old time South...