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...munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with Einstein...
Given to Jerusalem's Hebrew University by Dr. Albert Einstein: the original manuscript of his new "Generalized Theory of Gravitation" (TIME...
Mozart & Museums. Einstein's taste was an arduously cultivated and exacting one. After getting his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1903, he had begun prowling through Europe's museums and libraries ferreting out and copying old music manuscripts, digging up little-known facts about music and musicians. Gradually building up his store of musical knowledge, he gained a reputation first as an independent scholar, then as one of Europe's ranking music critics. Writing in the Munich Post and the Berlin Tageblatt, he was on hand to give encouragement and advice to his friends, including...
Nonentities in Brown. In 1933, as the music critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, Einstein was obliged to attend the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth held in honor of Adolf Hitler. When he found his German colleagues had become nonentities in brown uniforms, he decided he "couldn't stand it any longer." He shipped his priceless collection of music-manuscript copies to England and then followed them. Now Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back...
...Einstein will give up his chair at Smith in the spring, but he has no intention of giving up the life of the hard-working scholar. When he retires as Neilson professor he will head for Ann Arbor, Mich., to take on the task of making corrections for a reprint of the 39 volumes of the works of Mozart...