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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard recognizes the value of learning from doers." To circumvent the problem of assessing artists for tenure, Bok is promoting ways of bringing students into contact with artists, even for short term exposure by encouraging activities like the "Learning from Performers" series...
...these effects seem, they have all been verified. In designing nuclear accelerators, for example, scientists must take into account the fact that subatomic particles whipped to speeds approaching the velocity of light will appear to increase in mass. Furthermore, particles called muons, which at rest exist for only very short spans of time before decaying into other particles, are found to live far longer at high velocities...
...well as ideas from his photoelectric paper to make a historic deduction: if a body gives off an amount of energy (E) in the form of light, its mass will be reduced by that amount divided by the speed of light spuared (m = E/c2), From there was only one short algebraic step, but a giant intellectual leap, to a more daring conclusion: that mass and energy are not only equivalent but interchangeable...
...world still reeling from a bloody war, the thought that a single man, working only with mathematical scribblings, could reorder the universe seemed just short of miraculous. Newspapers and magazines clamored for interviews. Einstein was besieged by lecture invitations, received by presidents and kings and given tumultuous welcomes by throngs from Tokyo to Manhattan. Popular books were written to explain the mysteries of relativity. Still, the theory was difficult, its mathematics decipherable by only a tiny part of the scientific priesthood. Asked if it were true that only three people understood the subject, Eddington jokingly countered, "I'm trying...
...sequel's producers had virtually no trouble recruiting the cast they wanted. Some prominent athletes-Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and former U.S.C. Running Back Anthony Davis -volunteered to play minor roles. Cafe Pianist-Singer Bobby Short flew to Los Angeles on a few days' notice to play himself in an early 1960s literary party scene. The biggest coups by far were the casting of James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando. Jones had originally been lined up to play Chicken George in Roots 1. Had he done so, he would not have been usable as Haley in Roots...