"`Another form of life': Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs, and Analogy"

[...]cutting deep to the core, Krutch con- demns Rukeyser's very undertaking, asserting: "I am still not certain either that [Gibbs] deserves a popular biography or that, if he does, Miss Rukeyser was the person to write it" (97). "The book itself-as a book, as a personal production-is not the point," she wrote to the great scientist, "It has a great deal more to do, I think, with the human condition; with the need that today is felt everywhere ... for more information, to deal with all the parts of the universe, and closely and painfully, with human lives."