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Before the scientific world could even begin to digest these assertions, the journal published still another communique from the young patent examiner. Einstein had devised an equation that accounted for Brownian motion, the random, zigzagging movements of microscopic particles within liquids (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who first observed it in 1827). Einstein suggested that the specks were being jostled by molecules in the liquid, an idea that finally convinced many early 20th century skeptics of the atomic nature...
Phillips Brooks House, according to its charter, is available for rental to any outside group at minimum cost. Organizations from Scottish folk dancing to recruiting law firms have rented rooms there...
...quite a few folks-but I can't judge what's relevant." He further fesses up: "I find it very difficult to sing songs I can't connect with." Bok, however, can make some arcane connections. Sources for songs include Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "an acquaintance with a few local seals, and a series of very striking dreams" that provide Bok with images of burnt skies and a world ruled by wind. He seasons his shanties with Gaelic and Eskimo and has attempted a Mongolian tune now and again...
This ecumenical approach to music -some might call it anthropological -probably came from his mother's side of the family. "They'd lost most of their Scottish-German traditions," Bok recalls. "But they'd sing anything. Scottish, South African, Jewish, anything." On his dad's side, there is the Curtis Institute of Music, founded by his grandmother. Grandfather Edward Bok was part of Curtis Publishing and longtime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. He wrote an autobiography called The Americanization of Edward Bok, which Gordon had to read in school. His father Cary William...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening the essay with: "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was repersentative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...