Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ABSENCE OF A CELLO erupts with steady laughter as an academic scientist tangles with an org man from corporation land...
...initial idea for the play could have been mouthed by a New York cab driver: Those atomic scientists are crazy, man; they belong in a nut house. Mad Scientist No. 1 (Hume Cronyn) believes he is Sir Isaac Newton. Mad Scientist No. 2 (George Voskovec) thinks he is Albert Einstein. Mad Scientist No. 3 (Robert Shaw) hears the voice of King Solomon, and occasionally imagines that he is Solomon...
...distinguished paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking man. Since the publication of The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14, 1959), its author has emerged as one of the century's most remarkably prophetic thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era. For Teilhard was not only a scientist who studied the world's past. He was also a philosopher-mystic who saw man evolving toward the ultimate encounter with what Teilhard, ever groping for new ways to express ancient truth, called the "Omega point." Other men have called...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The life of Chaim Weizmann, the scientist and pioneering Zionist who became Israel's first President...
...remake of Kubrick's picture.* In both films a unit of the Strategic Air Command launches an H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union-in Dr. Strangelove the attack is inspired by a goofy general, in Fail Safe by a confused computer. In both films a sinister refugee scientist advises the U.S. to follow up the accidental attack with a total strike. In both films the U.S. President (Henry Fonda, a presidential candidate in The Best Man, was evidently elected before the release of Fail Safe) hops to the hot line and tries to persuade the Soviet Premier that...