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...first lecture, "Science and Technology in the Last Decade" Conant stresses the change in public opinion towards the "long-haired scientist," once disdained and now accepted in industry and government. It is no longer the inventor alone who holds the public's favor. The theorist who is attempting to "lower the degree of empiricism" in the material world is now respected...
Onetime Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Owen J. Roberts was elected president of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Among the new members chosen at the meeting: George F. Kennan, new U.S. Ambassador to Moscow; Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the evolutionary theorist and Illinois' Senator Paul H. Douglas...
...role of the scientist in society has changed drastically, Conant claimed. Far from being in the "long hair" sphere while the inventor is the public idol, the scientist of the 1950's is at once theorist and inventor, in that the public expects of him the miracles it once expected from an Edison...
...that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Died. Arnold Schoenberg, 76, famed composer, pedagogue and musical theorist, inventor of the twelve-tone system; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles (see Music...