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other societies regrettably fall short of or improperly
deviate from. It can fairly be argued - and Loren makes
the point in conversation - that the "American way"
of free enterprise, human rights, and the rule of law
is really the way of modernity, and some non-Western
societies such as India, South Korea, and Japan have
embraced most of it. But it is still not the only way,
and other ways are not necessarily reactions against it,
just other ways. If one asks, Can Russia compete?, one
is entitled also to wonder, Can America cooperate?
Are ambition, the profit motive, and the cutthroat arrogance of the corporate executive the model of progress,
or even of a meaningful life? The exaltation of privacy,
private property, and of the merit of individual achievement, without the leaven of tradition and togetherness
(Russian sobornost), brings not only to prosperity -
and even then, not always to a balanced society with
a prosperous middle class - but to loneliness, selfishness, the death of compassion. Can the earth afford
very much more national and commercial competition,
and where it inevitably leads - to plunder, environmental devastation, and war? The gated community
is not the answer to the collective farm. Oblomov and
Stolz had better find a middle way.
JULIAN PETERSON
Hedy's Folly: The Life
and Breakthrough Inventions
of Hedy Lamarr, the Most
Beautiful Woman in the World.
By Richard Rhodes. Knopf Doubleday, July 2012.
H
edy (pronounced "Hady") Lamarr (1913-
2000), actress and inventor, was declared
the most beautiful woman in Europe by
the Viennese impresario Max Reinhart.
After she made her way to Hollywood she was asked
by a reporter about Reinhart's assertion. She replied,
"It's not hard to be glamorous. You just stand still and
look stupid."
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2014.2366922
Date of publication: 1 December 2014
Hedy wasn't stupid. In addition to her keen mind,
she knew music and mathematics. She was encouraged
by her father to understand how things work, which
led her to think about how ideas might be translated
into concrete form. According to Richard Rhodes, in
his succinct new biography of the Austrian film star,
Hedy's Folly, she and her collaborator, the avant-garde
composer George Antheil (1900-1959), invented and
patented at least two original ideas that helped the
World Warr II war effort. But it was only after the
war that the most original of these, a guidance system
for an anti-ship torpedo, was taken seriously by the
Julian Peterson was a faculty member in English and Communications at Boston University. He reviews film and books
for a variety of Web sites and can be reached at petersonjulian@yahoo.com.
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