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Rather than occupy himself with the technical aspects of the atomic bomb. Else concerns himself primarily with the man who built the bomb. But early on, it becomes clear that the bomb itself might be easier to understand. Oppenheimer--the student of sixteenth-century French poetry, fluent in six languages, given to reading the Bhagavadgita--hardly can be filed in the mad scientist category. Else seems to appreciate Oppenheimer's complexity and doesn't try to explain the ultimate source of Oppenheimer's often contradictory behavior. Instead, he offers an exposition: he presents the incongruous, ironic and often darkly humorous...
Wall Street's bond market traditionally has been the haven for little old ladies with poodles. Unlike the frantic gold or stock exchanges, the "fixed income market" was as relaxed as a Norman Rockwell painting. On a normal day, prices might change one-sixteenth of a point...
...tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be 'interesting' to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back...
...energetic as backskating defensemen--on to the ice before the third period started. Cornell was in fact assessed a delay of game penalty, but Treadway took advantage of it to score a shorthanded goal. Nethery, who with 51 points is one behind Treadway in the scoring race, grabbed his sixteenth goal at 10:23 to complete the scoring...
Wednesday, March 15: Italian Department: Lecture and Slide Show. Mancy Dersofi, Assistant Professor of Italian, Bryn Mawr College on "The Renaissance of Theatre: the evolution of scenery and written text on sixteenth century Italy." Open to all G06 Pendleton East, 4:15 p.m. French Department Film:Last Year in Marienbad. 105 Pendleton East...