Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, God-the personal, omnicompetent deity of Christendom-has been dying for centuries. His lordship over the world has been threatened by every scientist who discovered a new natural law of organic growth, by every invention of man that safeguarded him against "act of God" disaster, by every new medicine that tamed a disease and solved another mystery of life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German...
...former pupil reproached Landowska because she had noticeably changed her interpretations over a period of ten years. Why not? asked Landowska. "What would you say of a scientist or of a painter who, like stagnant water, would stop his experimentation and remain still?" She insisted on surprise and suspense in her performances. The "tragedy" of recordings, she remarked, is that they catch "only one moment, one aspect of an interpretation when there are a thousand and one others, always different...
...that has been published about the pros and cons of LSD and other hallucinogens, there has been no impartial appraisal by a competent scientist writing in lay language. Now, in The Beyond Within: the LSD Story (Atheneum, $5), Dr. Cohen has done the job with commendable skill. Man's drive to find out what his mind is like, says Cohen, besides "including a search for release from the painful realities of' disease, disaster and death . . . also at tempts to find an answer to the question of how one human should relate to an other, and how man should...
...from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge of his world and of himself...
Died. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 72, irascible expatriate British scientist who demonstrated that he was his own best guinea pig; of cancer; in Bhubaneswar, India (see SCIENCE...