Word: einstein
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...Jewish man who runs a cafeteria in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he is tormented by rowdy youth gangs. "Typewise," says Strasberg, the part is wrong for him. "I'm essentially intellectual, sensitive or scientifically oriented, or whatever you call it," he reflects. Among his dream roles: Kissinger, Einstein and Freud...
Glass is now at work on an opera, "a continuation of Einstein's dense harmonies." Titled Satyagraha, it is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and has been commissioned by the city of Rotterdam for a Netherlands Opera performance in 1980. But Glass also wants to pursue the quiet vein of Part 4: "I don't have to break the sound barrier every time...
Wilde ultimately resists capture on the stage because his essence is his quicksilver mentality. The equations that produced his comic paradoxes are different from, but no less elusive than the equations that sprang from the mind of Einstein. One irony that might have amused Wilde is that for less than the price of two tickets at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theater, one can purchase all of his works in paperback, and enjoy them for a thousand and one nights...
...offer also includes a "Special knowledge hammer" which is billed as "a tremendous novelty." "With only a few taps, one can become an Einstein or a Charlie Brown," according to the offer. The hammer is available for one dollar with a "survival kit," or two dollars when purchased separately...
Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...