builder. about her new book female genius. which looks at the pass breaking it elizabeth harriet barons o connor. joining the author in conversation is martha jones, professor of history of johns hopkins university. today s guest speaker, mary sarah builder will introduce us to e.l.i.s.a. harriet barons o connor. and her work to advance women s education and political rights. mary sarah builder is found a professor of law at boston college law school and the author of the bancroft prize -winning book madison s hand. revising the constitutional convention. she s also the author of the transatlantic constitution and co-offer of appeals to the privy council from the american colonies. martha estes jones as the society of black alumni presidential professors, professor of history and a professor at the s and f igor is the toots of johns hopkins university. she is a legal and cultural historian and the author of vanguard, how black women broke barriers in insistent on equality f
How absent-minded do you have to be before they call in the doctors to begin clinical testing? This question may occur to the more cynical audience members as they watch “Flubber,” since the movie's hero succeeds in forgetting his wedding day three times in a row. In this remake of the 1961 hit, Robin Williams plays the absent-minded professor who accidentally invents flubber (“Flying rubber! Flubber!”) and saves his college, his career and his romance.
Flubber is a substance that somehow magnifies energy, allowing objects to bounce faster and higher than they should. Barely drop some, and it rebounds crazily off the walls.
“Flubber” the movie seems to be made out of anti-flubber; you drop it, and it stays on the floor. Although the movie may appeal to kids in the lower grades, it's pretty slow, flat and dumb.
Williams stars as Prof. Phillip Brainard, who must be related somehow to Prof. Ned Brainard, the role originally played by Fred MacMurray in “The Absent-Min