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...hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning for the twentieth century American." He will also have "freed himself from the concept of utility." All of this sounds very nice, on first reading, but on the second go-round it comes out as the syllabus for a sort of parody of a Gen Ed course...
...electrons emerging from the radioactive decay of cobalt were spinning more in one direction than in the other.) Physicists had assumed a law to be true in a situation where they had no right to. This was the second such faulty assumption which has been corrected in the twentieth century. Until 1926 physicists assumed that Newtonian mechanics (applicable to gloves and planets) was valid on the atomic level. In 1926 quantum mechanics appeared as a more valid description of mechanics upon the atomic level. In both cases the significance is hardly abstruse. Scientists who extend their laws to situations other...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Report on the Soviet fishing vessels off the U.S. coasts. Repeat...
Declining to join, the Rev. Henry Horn of University Lutheran Church said yesterday "I don't want my work identified with what I feel is only a 'revival' rather than an honest approach to the twentieth century." Horn felt that the evangelist would only antagonize many students...
Barry Goldwater is a man of integrity. That is, if integrity is defined as a reasonable correlation between rhetoric and action. One of the popular jokes about the man relates his "desire to repeal the twentieth century." Yet to read his speeches and peruse his voting record is to understand the more serious undertones of the humorous overstatement...