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...Michael A. Lerner, Lawrence Lipson, Harrison G. Lowry, John P. Lynch, Donald G. Marshall, Jeffrey S. Mehlman, Theodore H. Moran, Miles Morgan, Lester R. Morss, Martin A. Nurmi, Roger D. Nussbaum, Charles H. Rammelkamp, Michael Reiss, Sherman Robinson. David N. Rosen, William D. Rothman, Stephen R. Sacks, Robert M. Shapley, Henry F. Smith III, Thomas E. Staley, Phillip G. Stanley, A. Thomas Tymoczko, Owen S. Walker, James D. Wilkinson, and Peter W. Williams...
Hubley's hubris is evident both in the theme ("To find man's place in the universe") and in the treatment of his latest film. Adapted from a fairly erudite essay published in 1958 by Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Of Stars and Men is constructed like a philosophical treatise. In a prologue, Hubley celebrates man's capacity to know-and to know that he knows. In five principal chapters (Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Life), he expounds the physical universe as man has come to know it. And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum...
...folk hero (Mr. Mcgoo), supervised the development of another (Gerald McBoing-boing) and won two Academy Awards for cartoon shorts (Moonbird, 1957, and The Hole, 1962). In 1963 he completed a full length animated feature, Of Stars and Men, based on a book by the University astronomer, Professor Harlow Shapley. The recent opening of this feature in New York was also the occasion for a film festival in Hubley's honor...
...midnight, officials have squeezed the most out of the educational facilities-and educators. S.I.U. was the first university in the nation deliberately to hire visiting professors who were retired or soon to be retired at other schools. Among dozens of such luminaries have been Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, University of Chicago Theologian Henry Wieman and Designer-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller (TIME Cover...
They were not calculated to delight space fictioneers. Although such respected astronomers as Harvard's Harlow Shapley and Britain's Sir Bernard Lovell have speculated that there may be hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies capable of supporting life, Mariner's sensitive instruments testified that Venus does not rate a place on the long list. It appears to be hot and dry and dead. If there is any life at all-a doubtful possibility at best-it must float as dustlike microorganisms in comparatively cool clouds...