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...year is 1918, the place a small university town in a Germany whose people are slowly and unhappily awakening to the fact that they are losing the Great War. The protagonist is Victor Jakob, a professor of physics who, like his country, comes to realize that he too is being defeated. Younger, more imaginative men have challenged Jakob's beloved structure of classical physics, undermining the foundations of his intellectual world. Advancing age has confronted him with a more direct challenge, making him doubt his own usefulness and weakening his will to live. Seated in his study and spreading...
Jakob is a character invented by Russell McCormmach, 48, a professor of the history of science at Johns Hopkins University. "After years of work on rather standard books of history for the specialist," says McCormmach, "I decided to try a kind of spin-off from scholarly material. Enter Victor." But if the physicist is made of whole cloth, the other personae of this remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism...
...shuttle proceeded, a strange phenomenon became evident. Syrian negotiators, their armies pushed back into the environs of their capital, exuded the sense that history was on their side; militarily predominant Israel acted as if one wrong step would spell its destruction. There was a reversal between victor and defeated, with the stronger asking for guarantees and the weaker demanding territorial advance. Syria commanded respect in its selfdiscipline; Israel, compassion in its foreboding...
...Maude De Victor, a Veterans Administration counselor, uncovered the potentially lethal effects of the herbicide Agent Orange an American GI's and almost lost her job. (Does this story sound familiar...
...DIED. Victor Jory, 79, veteran character actor whose craggy looks and commanding voice kept him always in demand, often as a villain, in more than a thousand plays, movies, TV dramas and radio shows; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...