Mountain Memories: A Pilgrimage of Romance

Pilgrimage to a Scientific Shrine

In the summlnler of 1954 my wvife and I enjoyed a long-deferred European holiday which included a miiotor trip in central France. \Ve hired a small Citro&n, and -M., being miiore adaptable than I, soon mlastered the technique of shifting gears on the dashboard and did all the driving. Arriving ill Clerml-ont-Ferrand one afternoon and learning that there was a miiotor road up a nearby mounitaini...

My science pilgrimage.

Most scientists can point to several important milestones in their careers. Looking back on my journey through the realm of science, I find there have been five important turning points. The first was the period from 1962 to 1965 that I spent as a Fulbright Research Associate at Michigan State University (MSU). In the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at Kyoto University I had been studying ...

Superconsumer, a postmodern romance

“Postmodernism” is a key word today, wielded by philosophers, cultural theorists, artists, people in the media, and intellectuals in general. When most people talk about postmodernism, they envisage the revolutionary imagery of our life and times— information revolution, hyperglobalisation, and consumerist culture—and they herewith feel the risks, anxieties, and ills associated with life in the...

Analysis of Romance in Beighami\'s Darabnameh

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

The Romance of Tuberculosis