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...cold-eyed fraternity. They were not especially surprised. As devotees of one of the oldest and most intellectually satisfying games ever invented, they assume that chess appeals to every thinking man, whether he uses his talents to crack safes or split atoms. But most of these thinking men, from Einstein to Humphrey Bogart, are Patzers-a German word that can best be translated as "duffers." Several million light-years above them in ability are the chess masters. Above these stand a handful of grand masters. There are scarcely a dozen in the world, and only...
...York Times interview at Princeton, Albert Einstein had some thoughts on present-day college education. Too early specialization, too little stimulation of critical thinking, he said. Through specialization, the student "may become a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that [he] acquire ... a vivid sense of the beautiful and the morally good. Otherwise, he ... resembles a well-trained...
...shockers were in the Tate exhibit, e.g., his 1931 Genesis, showing a heavy-featured woman clutching her pregnant, outthrust belly. "Repellent as ever," observed the Times. But no one was much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait heads. The famous ones-Albert Einstein with his lofty brow and fiercely energetic hair; Nehru, smoldering with deep-eyed intensity; Haile Selassie, imperious in thin-drawn pride; Somerset Maugham, his expression twisted and wry-had the impact of enormously effective sketches, superbly drawn...
...sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally assigned to the mystic, the theologian and the philosopher, he maintains stoutly that he is a scientist. His methods, in his own view, are as empirical as those of Albert Einstein...
...Khan, off her list. Said she: "Princes are no different from other men; Aly is just a nice boy." Then she explained why her sights are set so high: "It is a biological necessity for me to idolize a man for his accomplishments." Her choice above all others: "Albert Einstein [73] ... the perfect companion . . . the only man who could go to the moon with me and know just exactly where he was all the time...