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...last attempt to do him honor in England's Westminster Abbey ended in 1924 when the then dean, Dr. Herbert E. Ryle, snorted that "his openly dissolute life and licentious verse earned him a worldwide reputation for immorality." Yet in today's easygoing society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough...
...that it came from an object no more than 4,000 miles in diameter-about half the size of the earth-that was no more than a neighborly 200 light-years away. The signals occurred with breathtaking regularity, one every 1.337 seconds. "Our first thought," says Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle, director of the Mullard Observatory, "was that this was another intelligence trying to contact...
...Your Essay, carefully clipped out and neatly inserted into a few professors' mailboxes, is serving as a brilliant explanation of why Philosophy 203 (readings with Ayer, Ryle, Moore, Austin, etc.) will be the last philosophy course for a great many disappointed students...
Finally Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born Cambridge don, and such Oxonians as J. L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle decided independently that philosophy was concerned not so much with meaning as with use, and should seek to establish the rules of the various "language games" that men played with ordinary words, describing when a word was used legitimately, and when it was not. About all the various analytic schools had in common was the beliefs that philosophy has nothing to say about the world and that clarity and straight thinking will dissolve most of the classical metaphysical problems...
Lovell's leading rival, Professor Martin Ryle of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Laboratory at Cambridge, was also opposed to the space tests; he thought their effects were likely to be irreversible. But Britain's famous Astronomer Fred Hoyle, a nonpanicking Yorkshireman, was not alarmed. If the radiation belt was damaged, said Hoyle, it would soon repair itself. In the U.S., the discoverer of the radiation belts, Dr. James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa, was not worried a bit. The space explosions, he said, would be "a magnificent experiment." It might even reveal...