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Best of all, the book is liberally sprinkled with well-conceived, gorgeously rendered and frequently whimsical illustrations by Philip Dunn that explain the thornier concepts better than words ever could. There are plenty of photos too, of everything from Einstein on a bicycle to Hawking's grandson. And every few pages, the author throws in an informative block of text--a miniprofile of an important physicist, a digression on the idea of linking our brains directly to computers, a minitutorial on taking the temperature of a black hole...
...misunderstanding." Such pretentious meditations become even more irksome because of the cloying interspersions of Western allusions, from "snap, crackle, pop" to "The name is Bond. James Bond" to Huey Lewis and the News. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (The Gourmet Club) and Philip Gabriel (Sputnik Sweetheart) serve their authors well as their English translators, but only Tanizaki demonstrates that he deserves his place in literary global orbit...
...INDONESIA Drowned The Indonesian government called a regional meeting to discuss the refugee problem after 374 refugees, most of them Iraqis, drowned in a 19-m boat bound for Australia. Only 44 people were rescued from the water. Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock asked Indonesia to extradite an Egyptian he claimed was responsible for the people-smuggling operation...
...begins “Reunion,” a humorous yet poignant musical chronicling those four Harvard years and the permanent crimson tint they add to one’s post-college life perspective. Dr. Philip Carl ’61, the lyricist, Dan Kline ’61, the book writer, and Stephen Price ’61, the composer, collaborated on this commerative work for their Class of 1961’s 40th Reunion last weekend. The musical was included in the Second Annual Festival of New Works for the Musical Stage, co-sponsored by New Opera...
Offstage, Philip Carl teaches molecular biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dan Klein is a writer, and Stephen Price is a practicing psychoanalyst who teaches at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline. Carl noted, “This musical is about all the things you can’t learn while at Harvard–we certainly couldn’t have written it at your age...We didn’t want to write about Vietnam, women’s liberation, or any of the other major things–we wanted to write...