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...life. And there was little doubt of the impact of their argument. Everywhere, everyone capable of understanding the significance of the Russian achievement recognized the impressive technological, industrial and scientific skills that lay behind it. Intuitively, people sensed the national purpose that produced the Russian program. Physicist Edward Teller used a sure, fund-winning tactic when he testified before a Senate committee in favor of the Apollo project. "What do you expect to find on the moon?" he was asked. His answer: "The Russians...
...specialization, the renaissance man is becoming hard to find. Yet, the curiosity of the most inventive thinkers in every field has always extended far beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...
...over th-there," answers a female bank teller who looks the way Red Riding Hood looked when Grandma turned out to be the Big Bad Wolf...
...lady replies with an even sweeter smile as she turns away with an alacrity amazing in one obliged to carry, in addition to her years, the staggering great stack of bank notes she has just forced the teller to stand and deliver...
...Eeeeeeeeeek!" the teller screams, and moments later the bank guards converge on the ladies room with revolvers drawn. The door bursts open, and out bolts a chic chick who looks as though the Loch Ness monster had just popped out of the drain...