Frank Capra

not ask any questions or get in the way of their agenda. The movie goes on to point out how corrupt and cynical the politicians and media in Washington are, and in the end the honest, highminded Smith prevails in a perfect Hollywood/Jimmy Stewart/Frank Capra (the writer and director of this film, along with It’s a Wonderful Life and many others with similar themes) kind of way. This is one of my favorite movies, and every time I watch it I’m amazed by how much has remained the same in terms of the opinion

its sound, and at that moment I knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of Dancers worshiped by the Hindus. (Capra 1983, p. 9) One quite unexpected development, particularly of the mid to late twentieth century, has been that physics has become detached from mathematics. This does not mean that physicists in general see their subject in terms of the dance of Shiva; Capra is to be seen as a symptom, an index of the kind of statement which some people on the margins of physics now think they

tranquillement, un morceau de bois se lance dans une course approxima ve avec un jeune roseau. Des rats cachés sur la rive jouent le rôle de spectateurs. Alessandro regarde plus bas, au-delà du pont, le long du cours du Tibre, et il pense au film de Frank Capra avec James Stewart, La vie est belle, quand George Bailey, désespéré, décide de se suicider. Son ange gardien l’arrête et lui montre qu’elles auraient été les conséquences pour tant d’autres gens s’il n’était pas né. Son frère serait mort, sa femme

şi talent descriptiv, încât ceea ce ne trezeşte admiraţia e zugrăvirea: „Poiret se apropie, înalt şi strâmb, cocârjat de plugărit, slăbit de cumpătare, osos, cu pielea uscată de nespălare îndelungată. Nevastă-sa venea după el, mică şi slabă, ca o capră obosită, ţinând cu amândouă mâinile o umbrelă verde, uriaşă."3 Aşadar, chiar în clipa când, la Maupassant sau Zola, romanul se laudă că ar cuprinde teorii sociale, studii „pozitive" şi obiective, el devine un recital al romancierului. Numai aşa, de