Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hess; then the "vain, pompous, incredibly stupid" Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was to be Foreign Minister. Shirer recalls being dumbfounded by Bernhard Rust, the Nazi Education Minister, a bureaucratic ideologue who explained the difference between serious, careful, Aryan physics and the degenerate Jewish physics, as represented by the mountebank Einstein...
...budgeted money to ship their productions to the U.S. For the CIVIL warS is a magnum opus that outdoes in richness and complexity even Wilson's previous essays in theatrical gigantism, such as The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973) and his best-known work, Einstein on the Beach (1976). Spare and elliptical, yet also bril liantly colorful and chillingly perceptive, the CIVIL warS is a radical concatenation of allusions whose theme is destruction and death but whose message is the importance of civilization and the value of life. It is all summed up in the title...
...space satellite telescope--known as the Advanced X-Ray Astronomy Facility (AXAF)--is one example of Harvard and MIT's move to the forefront of astronomical study. Other projects have included the Einstein Observatory, the less powerful prototype of the current satellite which orbited the earth from 1978-1981, and the X-Ray Timing Explorer, an MIT operated satellite...
NASA selected the Harvard Center to assist in designing the spacecraft primarily because of its experience in similar projects, namely designing and operating the Einstein observatory, Newton said...
...Einstein Observatory, which orbited the Earth from 1978-1981, was a less powerful prototype of AXAF. It provided scientific access to previously unseen areas of space...