Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath and murmur: "Ah, that...
...Einstein in Arabic. Franklin, fittingly named for Ben, set out in 1952 to be "the ambassador of American publishing"−nonprofit broker for countries hungry for U.S. books. It is headed by Datus C. Smith Jr., former director of the Princeton University Press, and governed by a board of directors that includes top U.S. publishers, librarians, industrialists and university presidents...
...Cairo in 1953. The first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books ranging from Ethan Frome to Gone With the Wind, from The Spirit of St. Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class...
...readability. We think that the four new titles can be judged by these standards, for they are: Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson (the best contemporary novel on Africa); S.L.A. Marshall's The River and the Gauntlet (Korean war); Lincoln Barnett's The Universe and Dr. Einstein; and Sybille Bedford's The Trial of Doctor Adams...
...Alfred North Whitehead. The first master of Yale's Silliman College, Northrop quit that in 1947 for fulltime scholarship on both the law and philosophy faculties. He preferred immersion in such subjects as Mexican culture, quantum physics and relativity (he was an intimate of Einstein's) as preludes to informed philosophical analysis. From all this, Northrop, who will soon head an anthropology symposium in Austria, concluded that synthesis is possible in all human affairs - if men will only...