Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool 77°. By last Labor Day, Ro Anne seemed strong enough to undergo the operation, and Dr. Melvin M. Newman, 41, N.J.H.'s chief of surgery, was satisfied that recent advances in technique had made the procedure safe enough. On operation morning, Ro Anne got a general anesthetic. Then she was put in an ice bath. After 15 minutes, her temperature had dropped about 6° F. She was taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct...
...More than any other dealer, Betty Parsons is credited with bringing abstract art to its present status. She opened in 1946 with about 13 artists, including the even then venerable Hans Hofmann and Ad Reinhardt. She gave one-man shows to Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. The public was either indifferent or hostile at first, but Betty Parsons got an unexpected boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa Maxwell...
Science and sensibility does have at least one particularly self-contained piece; unfortunately Newman claims he had little to do with it. This is G. H. Hardy's description of his experiences with Ramanujan, certainly the most fascinating article I found in the two volumes. "My job has been merely to copy, paraphrase, and select" writes Newman. Hardy is describing his five-year acquaintance with the unknown Hindu clerk who had, before he was 25 and with the help of just one obscure work of higher mathematics, independently divined answers to problems that occupied Europe's best mathematicians. Hardy writes...
...conveyed in an extraordinary way the essence of scientists and science. Everything is there: the intellectual response, the implications, the historical situation. He may seem in this way to describe a hero, though scientists are usually the first to claim that there are few heroes in science. James Newman claims in a preface not to believe in them, but Science and Sensibility is full of his heroes--many of them as heroic as anyone can be, nevertheless a little embarrassed by Newman's subjectivity...
...Newman succeeds as a reviewer where he fails as essayist: you want to read what he is interested in, to read Hardy or Russell instead of Newman. But two volumes are a lot of appetizer and appetizer to an awful lot. They shouldn't be started unless you're also prepared to spend next year in science biographies...