Poet and Physicist Overture

Poet and Physicist Overture The Open Mind, by J. Robert Oppen- heimer. 146 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster. $2.75 A typical Oppenheimer fan-say a “responsible” journalist-will not read this book. What could he, from :read- ing a book by J. Robert Oppenheimer called The Open Mind, possibly leaID that he doesn’t already know from the title and the identity of the author? Here he cannot have an open mind. He can only ad.mire. In a way that is right. Any book by Robert Oppenh~imer is important, because be is important. But the rea-

son to read him-carefully-is less to h,arn from him than to learn a.bout }um. Robert Oppenheimer dominated

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Poet and Physicist Overture The Open Mind, by J. Robert Oppen- heimer. 146 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster. $2.75 A typical Oppenheimer fan-say a “responsible” journalist-will not read this book. What could he, from :read- ing a book by J. Robert Oppenheimer called The Open Mind, possibly leaID that he doesn’t already know from the title and the identity of the author? Here he cannot have an open mind. He can only ad.mire. In a way that is right. Any book by Robert Oppenh~imer is important, because be is important. But the rea-

son to read him-carefully-is less to h,arn from him than to learn a.bout }um. Robert Oppenheimer dominated