NICODEMUS. July 13, 1966.
Sir.—Dr. Moffat is stretching the argument, which concerned men with long hair, not those with beards or profuse curly locks. Even Einstein’s wispy strands could not be called long hair. There are exceptions, notably in the eighteenth century in Europe, but on the whole there is a good case for the argument that great thinkers have not cultivated long hair. Dr. Moffat gives Leonardo da Vinci as a hirsute example, but his grandfather, Cosimo, had greater vision, and short hair. One might counter other of Dr. Moffat’s examples. Justinian was a greater administrator than thinker, Michelangelo an artist. But this kind of argument becomes tedious in public. I shall be glad to discuss the matter with Dr. Moffat, as he suggests, in private. —Yours, etc., BARBAROSSA. July 14, 1966. [This correspondence may now cease.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 12
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