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...helped perpetuate the myth that physical scientists are totally objective in their work. Obviously, you have not noticed how physicists mold their positions on the feasibility of President Reagan's Star Wars program to correlate with their political ideologies. While the scientific merit of Political Scientist Samuel Huntington's work is debatable, Mathematician Serge Lang's comments on that work reveal considerable ignorance about the nature of science. This is not surprising. Though mathematics is the language of science, it is not a science...
...temperaments set off a brilliant chain reaction. The Wrights were also practical tradesmen who could finance their flying experiments through the cycle company. The cost of building and launching the 1903 Flyer was, according to Orville, less than $1,000, while the U.S. Government spent $50,000 to have Samuel Langley construct a similar aircraft that fell into the Potomac River seconds after takeoff...
DIED. Frederick A. Pottle, 89, emeritus professor of English at Yale University who wrote six books and edited 26 others from the diaries and papers of James Boswell, the 18th century Scottish gentleman and rakehell who gained immortality as Samuel Johnson's biographer; in New Haven, Conn. Pottle's 1950 edition of Boswell's London Journal sold more than 1 million copies and established his literary reputation as Boswell's Boswell. Noting his incompatibility with Boswell, Pottle once declared, "He was such a noisy, bouncy fellow, and I'm rather quiet and pensive...
...Samuel Johnson and Matthew Arnold it's not, yet the program has virtually invented a new TV genre. Two sets of clones are currently trying (mostly in vain) to match their success: Rex Reed and Bill Harris on At the Movies; Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved on Sneak Previews. Meanwhile, Siskel and Ebert are frequent guests on the Tonight show and have mock-settled their differences in a basketball-shooting contest on Late Night with David Letterman. Movies now even make fun of them: in Hollywood Shuffle, two streetwise blacks review movies in a takeoff called Sneakin' in the Movies...
...hunt for error." Last week the sheriff rode again. At the NAS annual meeting in its imposing marble headquarters in Washington, the normally stately proceedings were shattered by an acrimonious debate in which Lang led a successful drive to refuse membership to a distinguished Harvard political scientist: Samuel P. Huntington, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and president of the American Political Science Association...