Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard respectfully, with no jeering. There were Maoists, Trotskyites, ordinary Communists, anarchists and "situationists"-a tag for those without preconceived ideologies who judge each proposition...
...GUEST FOR THE NIGHT, by S. Y. Agnon. Israel's 1966 Nobel prizewinner spins a searching, unhurried tale about the eternal Wandering Jew, who turns up this time in Eastern Europe just before World...
...Including Law Professor Michael Severn, Critic Lionel Trilling, Philosopher Ernest Nagel, Sociologist Daniel Bell, Nobel Physicist Polykarp Kusch, Economist Eli Ginzberg, Historians William Leuchtenburg and Walter P. Metzger, Political Scientists Alexander Dallin and Alan F. Westin...
...GUEST FOR THE NIGHT, by S. Y. Agnon. Israel's 1966 Nobel prizewinner spins a searching, unhurried tale about the eternal Wandering Jew, who turns up this time in Eastern Europe just before World...
...Pauling, 67, now on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his monumental work on the chemical bonding of atoms into molecules. Lately, he has won more attention (and a second Nobel Prize) as an antiwar crusader. But Pauling remains a chemist at heart, and has long been fascinated by that most elusive of chemical puzzles, the workings of the brain...