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  • The bodily removal from this planet of C. P. Snow and Alan Freeman and their replacement with fine TREES.

    Plethora K. A. Laity 2005

  • The full review is here, and this is the paragraph that just blew my mind: There are few writers today capable of producing political novels of the quality of those once written by C. P. Snow and Alan Drury.

    I realize Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The full review is here, and this is the paragraph that just blew my mind: There are few writers today capable of producing political novels of the quality of those once written by C. P. Snow and Alan Drury.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Most power-writers know that the phrase corridors of power is identified with C. P. Snow, author of the 1964 novel of that name.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Most power-writers know that the phrase corridors of power is identified with C. P. Snow, author of the 1964 novel of that name.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • In his 1959 essay, the novelist C. P. Snow argued that science and the humanities were dangerously divided - but is it still true in 2009?

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • But I sure wish it weren't too late to forward the professor's assertion for comment to C. P. Snow, who gave the name to the insidious two-cultures problem that the assertion illustrates, and who besides being a scientist was a novelist.

    RealClimate 2009

  • But I sure wish it weren't too late to forward the professor's assertion for comment to C. P. Snow, who gave the name to the insidious two-cultures problem that the assertion illustrates, and who besides being a scientist was a novelist.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Next year is 50 years since C. P. Snow delivered his famous lecture 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution', suggesting that as cultured citizens we need to know as much about the second law of thermodynamics as the plays of Shakespeare.

    Museum Blogs 2008

  • Next year is 50 years since C. P. Snow delivered his famous lecture 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution', suggesting that as cultured citizens we need to know as much about the second law of thermodynamics as the plays of Shakespeare.

    Museum Blogs 2008

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