Word: scientists
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...prelate last week strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still (Joshua 10: 12-13) if it did not move? Galileo was forced...
...Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor...
...gloomy days of January, time seems to drag. According to the Einstein theory of relativity, it actually does-in a minute amount that means little to anyone except a scientist. During its annual elliptical trip through space, the earth reaches its maximum speed each January, when it makes its closest approach to the sun. According to Einstein, the earth's increased velocity, along with its passage through a more intense part of the sun's gravitational field, causes terrestrial time to slow down in relation to time outside the solar system...
...employees from designating some portion of their wages for the credit union. Result: the wages were duly deducted for the credit union-then transferred for payment as union dues, saving face all around. Such conciliation would be far easier if adversaries would only heed the aphoristic advice of Danish Scientist-Poet Piet Hein...
...recommend this as a political program, and I think this is frankly the limitation of my kind of thinking and my kind of work. I'm neither a political scientist nor a political leader. I'm working with people who are terribly caught up in a country they love--and they do love America, this is not romantic talk--a country they both love and want more from I want these people to have the kinds of lives they want to have. I don't want to impose my idea of the Good Life on them...