Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kohler has frequently been in America and his skill and charm as a lecture in English as in German are well known. In choosing the relation of psychology to other sciences as the topic of the William James Lectures he will be presenting to Harvard audiences his views about Gestalt psychology as opposed to the older conventional psychology...
...authorities in the field of their special interest will give talks on such topics as Japanese foreign policy, the new German state, fascism, and pressure groups in politics. The lectures will be given for students only and the general public will not be admitted. The treatment of the material, therefore, will not be of a popular sort but will be found useful and interesting to men who have already some background in the problems of international politics. Since these discussions will take place outside of the class room the lecturer will have an opportunity to present to his listeners...
Only the tail end of the Jeans presidential discourse was concerned with science in industry. His topic was "The New World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
...reef on the Pacific Coast, Lightship No. 167 is called by neighboring Indians "the ship that goes nowhere." But within its battered hull an assorted crew of nine finds plenty of action before the story is over. In dull spells they indulge in philosophical speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends in a burst of action and heroism...
Rooseveltian candor, Rooseveltian liberalism, Rooseveltian charm, some people thought, had insensibly softened stern Critic Borah. His favorite topic, unforgiveness of War debts, was practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter...