NP! Misc. CP Snow's The Two Cultures lecture
L E Bryan
lebryan at sonic.net
Mon Jul 17 15:12:45 CDT 2017
I first heard of Snow from my physic’s professor before "The Two Cultures” hit the fan. He recommended The Masters, as a great contemporary novel for me to read and expand my knowledge of academia. Alas I never read it. I suppose it’s not too late, but I still have to get through Proust and a dozen or so others, so …
> On Jul 17, 2017, at 4:39 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Published 1959. Had an impact and was reprinted more than
> A few times thru the early 1960's. There is a peer discussion among
> academics in A Single Man, Isherwood's novel of 1964.
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> Snow sez he was a scientist by training and a novelist by vocation.
> I remember that TRP always wanted to be a writer, despite his math
> skills and engineering major (his first major).
> Snow observes that in England even the poor could become scientists.
>
> Snow uses the word crystalline a few times in a short lecture.
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> Sent from my iPad
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