Word: sirs
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FIFTEEN YEARS ago a venerated, thick-jowled and white-haired English Man of Letters and Amateur Scientist named Sir Charles P. Snow delivered a famous lecture at Cambridge University. The title of the lecture was The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Sir Charles's message was that English and, in fact, all of Western society no longer possesses a "common culture." We are divided into scientists and nonscientists, and between us we no longer speak the same language. Since science dominates our lives and prospects, he pontificated, the scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves...
Having learned about important differences between English and American education--in England students begin specializing around puberty--I still think Sir Charles's solution runs pretty thin. Even if it has some substance the problem of humanizing technology runs deeper than the universal enforcement of General Education requirements. Besides, it's still not clear to me how anyone's simply understanding the Second Law of Thermodynamics would relieve the devastation of a life riveted to the assembly line at Lordstown...
Arrow won the 1972 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to equilibrium and welfare theory. He shared the prize with Sir John Hicks of Oxford University...
...British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican Army terrorist operations...
...being among a group who in March hijacked a police car in the Irish Republic. Police believe that she also helped write the ransom note demanding $1,250,000 plus the transfer of four jailed Irish terrorists from Britain to Ulster in return for the masterpieces stolen from Sir Alfred...