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Gertrude Stein was never one who seemed to require the services of men: her creative faculties appeared self-fecundating. But perhaps we can imbroil James in an intellectual paternity suit, nonetheless. After all, she was but a young impressionable 'Cliffie, while he had by then attained world renown. In lieu of a blood test, one need only examine the term "stream of consciousnes literature." It is astonishing how Jamesian some passages of Miss Stein's essays on the art of writing sound. Surely the extent of the dalliance is clear beyond reasonable doubt. And if we can obtain the conviction...
...example is the James-Lange theory of the emotions. In presenting this theory James superbly displayed those gifts that brought him renown as a psychologist: novelty, lucidity, effective argumentation. "Commonsense says, we loose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis there to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not immediately induced by the other, that the bodily manifestations must first be interposed between, and that the more rational statement is that...
During the first dozen years of his marriage James labored on the Principles of Psychology, a two volume compendium of old wisdom and stunning new insights. It was in this phase of life that he acquired world renown. But his fame continued to increase in the succeeding decades as he came to focus his attention upon philosophy and religious experience...
Disasters of War. Dix's new renown is his second installment of fame. He had a burst of popularity in the early '20s. and the Stuttgart exhibition, with 115 graphics made between 1911 and 1928, shows why. Most of them are scenes of World War I, sketched with a fury on plain brown wrapping paper. Their strident picturing of cavernous shell craters, socket-eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters...
...called "Jewish physics." Franck quit, and others scattered. Gottingen did not remotely recover until after World War II, when it took in a wave of avid students in tattered Wehrmacht uniforms -"the best generation we ever had." recalls one veteran professor. It also welcomed a new source of research renown: the independent Max Planck Institute for Physics, named for the late pioneer of the quantum theory, and headed by Physicist Heisenberg, discoverer of the "uncertainty principle."* Though Heisenberg moved his staff to Munich in 1958, Göttingen remains headquarters of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science...