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(3 of 3) of illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perverbs and Snowballs | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Bogdanovich is right to mourn the passing of the foolishness and charm of the happy-go-lucky flickers: It is too bad that the frantic slapstick of the film's early passages ill prepares one for the ending, vitiating its force. It is by no means a fatal flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The First Picture Shows | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Growing up in Arizona, California and New York, young "Sandy" Calder tirelessly crafted playthings and other gadgets out of wire, wood and nails. In 1919 he graduated as an engineer from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., then set out on an eccentric progression of technical jobs. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Calder: The Mobile Stops | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

In Plains it's more than a matter of loyalty. A Carter victory guarantees a minor boom on Main Street. Contractor Abbett was already thinking about facilities for the Secret Service and Georgia troopers: "I hope I get my share of that work." Angie Stevens, manager of the Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Longer a Way Station | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell. All these literary luminaries went to Harvard but none majored in Option III, the creative writing program within the English concentration. Of course, they were all here well before the advent of the option a short five years ago...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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