According to Rindler and Penrose (1965), Perrin's derivation was based largely on Langevin's "elegant" lectures, which were delivered at the College de France in Zurich around 1922.
As Darryl Tippens, the provost of Pepperdine University, recently put it, "No PowerPoint presentation or elegant online lecture can make up for the surprise, the frisson, the spontaneous give-and-take of a spirited, open-ended dialogue with another person".
There was another wonderful critic, David Elliott, then of the doomed Chicago Daily News, whose reviews of movies and everything else were like elegant little lectures.
Story was about two elegant Harvard Sophomores, who cuts lectures in philosophy, and on eve of exam hire a struggling Jewish boy to tutor them, and they pass with higher marks than he does.
There's an elegant salon on the lower level that presents lectures, screenings and readings by "Writers in Residence:" authors, poets and scholars.
Spence began his lecture series, entitled Chinese Vistas, with an elegant if rather languidly delivered reconsideration of Confucius in light of the renewed popularity of Confucian thought in China.
The masterly pianist Andras Schiff, admired for his elegant and intelligent artistry, is also an insightful lecturer, as he demonstrated some years ago in a series of lecture-recitals on the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall in London.
If you're in the mood for something a little more elegant, try LER DEVAGAR (324-1000), a bookstore that features debates, lectures and films.
Cantor too provided a definition of R in 1872, employing Cauchy sequences of rational numbers, which was an elegant simplification of the definition offered by Carl Weierstrass in his lectures.
Sibylle, a tall elegant woman born in 1944 who has written nine novels and also lectures in film, picked me up and we set out in pleasant sunshine along the autobahn.
