Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valpey called forth his football squad at 3 p.m. yesterday, and found a great hole in the Crimson line. He found another one in the backfield. What to do about them is the problem of the week...
...Another Problem...
Matilda gave her home as Hammaching, Mich. Asked about the laundry problem over such a distance, she confessed "I do my personal laundry myself, and send home just the heavier things, like bluejeans...
...without the friendships he had painfully made at Harvard, Oppenheimer was soon deep in depression and doubt. He convinced himself that he could no longer postpone "the problem of growing up." He read Dostoevsky, Proust and Aquinas and explored the defects in his own character. At Christmas time, walking by the shore near Cancale in Brittany, "I was on the point of bumping myself off. This was chronic." He came out of this period of self-examination, he now feels, "much kinder and more tolerant-able to form satisfactory, sensible attachments...
After a late party, he would frequently sit up most of the night working on some involved problem ("How much sleep do I need? This is like what Mrs. Lenin said about the meat: 'When we are hungry, we cook it five minutes; when we are not hungry, two hours'"). Once, on a date with a coed in the Berkeley hills, he felt the urge to solve a problem in physics, got out of the car to pace up & down, wandered off into the night. On another occasion, emboldened by his own Martinis, Oppenheimer decided to telephone...