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...movies had begun to talk, and Tallulah returned to the U.S. to get a word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since...
...Sense of Sin. Los Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...
...that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth...
...provided only though freedom of inquiry and discussion, and by . . . the personal idealism of [teachers] aware of the moral and spiritual implications of knowledge . . . Graduate schools and colleges which glorify research and publication at the expense of the art of teaching are guilty of a grave and perhaps irreparable sin against civilization. Communities which spend millions for alcohol, cosmetics and amusements, and what is left over for schools, are committing spiritual suicide. [We are] letting our world slide into an abyss of technological and moral confusion...