Word: rede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maharani of Baroda's guest list included both outdoor Americans, such as Ceezee Guest and Wendy Vanderbilt, and indoor Europeans, such as Count Vega del Ren and the Baron de Rede. Mary and Sonny Whitney dropped by on their way up from their place in Lexington, Ky. (horses), to their place in the Adirondacks (hunting). Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Maria Pia, the Porfirio Rubirosas, and the Fiat-fortunate Gianni Agnellis were on hand. Onetime silent screen star Hope Hampton, who has been making opening-night scenes as long as most people can remember, was there...
...interesting to observe that, in the five years since Snow gave the Rede Lecture, no one has produced a prolonged discussion on the same theme. Probably this failure reflects both the essential vagueness of the problem, and the immense difficulties involved in any attempted solution. For what Snow is getting at, the breakdown of communication among specialists, is a situation which exists in every aspect of academic life, and forms a major problem of universities today. It certainly extends beyond the simple scientist-humanist dichotomy...
...fleet of water-carrying Dracones -huge, sausage-shaped bags of rubber-covered nylon, which are towed over to the islands daily from the Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries had no more need for sausage barges. Hawthorne began...
...Charles Snow's Rede Lecture, "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," reached an enormous audience on both sides of the Atlantic. This was partly because of Snow's reputation as a novelist and distinguished civil servant, but more because the lecture said things that were on everybody's mind. It mirrored the academic community's disquiet over a sense of division within itself, and met a prevailing current of thought favoring some sort of inter-disciplinary ecumenical movement. Snow's Godkin Lectures on "Science and Government" fill no such need and will probably not have the same kind...
...honor and reputation he has acquired for his work in science and government have given his writing other troubles. Last year he gave the Rede Lecture at Cambridge University, and of Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution he remarks "It's turned into a major industry." He thinks that the lecture attracted a great deal of attention because it expressed what everyone was thinking: "Nothing that's snapped up as rapidly as that can be original." But, whatever the reason, the subject has taken much of his time and with this year's Godkin Lectures to worry about also...