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...people were confident, but far from smug. Eisenhower and Dulles had not ended the cold war, nor had the people been lulled into thinking it was ended. What had ceased was the chronic crisis, the futile nail-biting, the frustrated tensions that previously surfaced in such phenomena as the pro-and-con McCarthy yawpings. Now, the U.S. had the idea that something constructive could be done about foreign affairs-and the idea of doing something constructive is the idea with which Americans feel most at home...
...toward the necessary formula. "But," he insists, "since governments, big foundations, and better brains seem to be absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the examination of man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love...
...metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have influenced...
...Stranger. Just how Caltech achieved its extraordinary stature is one of the phenomena of U.S. education. Since it took its present form only 35 years ago, it is not only the youngest of its peers among U.S. universities, it is also one of the smallest (600 undergraduates, 450 graduate students). On its 30-acre campus of stucco, Mediterranean-style buildings and olive-shaded walks, no one is a stranger, and with its faculty of 350, it has the luxuriously high teacher-student ratio of about one to three. While other campuses glut themselves with courses, Caltech will happily drop...
...more than 200 years, science had accepted Newton's laws of motion as unalterable. In easily parsed schoolboy terms, they seemed to explain everything, from the behavior of gases to the nature of heat. But in the 1880s, more sensitive instruments were uncovering awkward phenomena, particularly in the physics of light. These phenomena operated in open violation of Newton's laws. To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space. But experiments soon proved that ether does not exist. Scientists...