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That's what Julie Aigner-Clark of Littleton, Colo., did after she developed Baby Einstein, her first educational video for infants. A former schoolteacher, Aigner-Clark, 33, was still pregnant with her first daughter, Aspen, when she came across research showing that children learn foreign languages more easily when they are exposed to a variety of language sounds during infancy...
Spong was infuriated by Africans overriding his politically correct position on sexuality. He said of the African bishops: "They've moved out of animism into a very superstitious kind of Christianity. They've yet to face the intellectual revolution of Copernicus and Einstein[!] that we've had to face in the developing world. That's just not on their radar screen." (Of course, Spong never explained--because it is unexplainable--how heliocentricity and general relativity could possibly affect traditional Christian beliefs regarding sexuality...
Everett knows his answer is a writerly evasion of an old question: Can timeless truths be conveyed through something as time-ridden as language? Shouldn't, he wonders, great minds have brought us all a little closer to an answer? What about Einstein, say, or Wittgenstein...
Sure enough, these people, or rather Everett's fictional versions of them, begin speaking on his pages. Here is Einstein: "I must try to understand certain irreducible laws of the universe as a transcendent behavior. In these laws, God, the Old One, will be manifest." Here is Wittgenstein: "I have argued that the truths of silence, when spoken, are no longer true...
...Einstein's insights are likely to continue to bear consequences far beyond their original scope. Whereas your runners-up for Person of the Century--Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi--responded greatly to stirring events, Einstein created new vistas through his own initiative. These three giants shared the quality of wonderment of a child at play. They were uncommonly tenacious in pursuing their goals and designed novel means to achieve them, yet they could laugh heartily amid arduous circumstances. Their examples will always shine. WILLIAM E. COOPER, PRESIDENT University of Richmond Richmond...