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Thousands of other tributes poured in, but words could not convey the feelings of a world in which the many unquestioningly accepted Einstein's genius while only the few-and they, of scientific training-adequately understood what he had contributed to knowledge. In person, Albert Einstein was diffident, almost childlike. As a man of scientific thought, he strode boldly with history's handful: Pythagoras and Archimedes, Copernicus and Newton...
...important that the swirls and splashes convey nothing at all to the viewer, except an uneasy feeling that the artist must be energetic and very angry. But Mathieu's paintings surpass the average of their kind precisely because they fail to be quite meaningless. Despite himself, Mathieu's interlocked squiggles of toothpaste white, tarry black smears, and ocher, green and crimson flashes bring to mind the night driver's world of electric lights, flashing neon and high speeds...
...Spears, a hussar who speaks French like a native, served as a liaison officer with the French in World War I. When World War II began, Churchill chose Spears as his personal representative to the French government. He became a sort of overloaded Hermes whose duty it was to convey to France the untranslatable fire and fighting passion of his master in Downing Street...
...convey the immense sweep of the latter work and yet do justice to episodes of intimate chamber music is the formidable task facing the performers. They must possess not only virtuosity, but a delicate rapport in ensemble; not only forceful rhythmic drives, but the courage (and control) to bring a lengthy phrase to a hushed and protracted close. Mr. and Mrs. kohn seemed aware of the immensity of their task. Much of the playing was brilliant as well as subtle. Yet on the whole, the performances of the Schubert works left too many problems unsolved or only half-heartedly assaulted...
...short." said Ike with a quick grin, "but I think most of you would agree it has also been quite intense. I know that underlying every political purpose -every political aspiration and hope - must be work at the pre cinct level. We must reach the individual. We must convey to him - and to America - the ideals by which we live...