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...report to Harry Truman, "Science--The Endless Frontier." The U.S., through research and its rapid application to the lives of people, would conquer other realms. There were those stars that the quirky European philosopher Paracelsus had dreamed of dominating. Going into space was the obligation of America, an absolute writ of being--and staying--free...
Welcoming Ormandy to Philadelphia, Stokowski told a banquet audience, "Of course, you must not make comparisons. Comparisons in art should never be made." He probably meant the advice invidiously, but Ormandy's career proved the truth of those words. His achievement is writ large in Philadelphia, and no comparison is necessary...
...produced enough scientific inventiveness to shake the spirit for a lifetime: the first baby from a frozen embryo, surrogate mothers, genetic transfers between animals, a record number of heart transplants, an animal heart transplant, another artificial heart. The central ailment of the age may simply be Arnold's writ larger...
...cutting-edge architects, however, who tend to turn wildly glib and goofy when they design furniture, Aalto took his chairs and stools seriously. An exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, "Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass," shows his winning virtues as a designer writ small. The best pieces are bareboned but sensuous, simultaneously playful and serene. Aalto designed objects that were likable. The furniture at MOMA is so quiet and good-natured, in fact, that the show has an almost bashful...
These are just two examples from a new antisexist rendering of hundreds of widely known biblical texts that was issued last week by the National Council of Churches.* The aim of the balanced (six men, six women) committee that prepared the translations was to rid Holy Writ of the "male bias" that supposedly runs through both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures and subsequent English translations. This means expunging any references to a male God, such as "the Lord," "the Father" and masculine pronouns like "he." Says Committee Member the Rev. Sharon Ringe of the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio...