Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...
...applied psychology, vol. 4; Copenhagen, 1962.) Whatever its truth, in some sense or other. Leary's estimate of the mind is inconsistent with the science game, with the professor game, and with the university game. A university is built of men's minds; he who attacks the corner-stone can well expect to get hit by falling walls...
...second section of the new Mosaic is devoted to a number of tributes to the famous scholar, Prof. Harry Austryn Wolfson, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. They include a biographical sketch by Richard B. Stone, a review of Prof. Wolfson's scholarly work by a student, Prof. Isadore Twersky, and seven short pieces by faculty friends...
Prof. Twersky's piece clearly shows, in its incisive and gently ironic style, the influences of Prof. Wolfson himself. Stone's piece is often awkward, and far too serious for what could have been a delightful account of Wolfson's eccentric life and habits. And as all academic biographies do, he includes the inevitable description of the scholar's office, littered high with papers and books, in which the genius can find a 20-year-old magazine within seconds...
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