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...Will Eisner, The Spirit's creator, was one of the best of the comic book artists of the '30's and '40's. He wrote his own strips, and drew them in a violent graphic style related to the German expressionist approach to moviemaking practiced by Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, and F. W. Murnau. Eisner's strip was filled with horrifying close-ups, weird shadows, and strange angles. Jules Feiffer claims that The Spirit's world looked "more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...
...GIANT DWARFS, by Gisela Eisner. A bitterly effective indictment of the Nazi era and the new materialistic society that succeeded it. Through the eyes of a brilliant child, this young German novelist depicts a family's joyless, all-consuming pursuit of money and respectability at the cost of human feeling...
...Gaggle of Princelings. A ring of royalty surrounds Munich, making it the society center of Germany. The gaggle of local princelings includes Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, lesser-known Hatzfeldts and Croys, but the dominant family is the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918, when Kurt Eisner's revolution threw them out. The Wittelsbachs still live in the splendid Nymphenburg Castle- Munich's Versailles-and their shadow court dominates the city's social life. At the Aristocrats' Ball, held earlier this month in the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel, only those patricians with at least 32 titled ancestors...
...answer he found was his experimental approach. He took seals to his laboratory at the University of Oslo, strapped them to boards and dunked them in a bathtub, to simulate diving. Now at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., he works with Dr. Robert W. Eisner, a physiologist who trains seals to simulate diving by voluntarily holding their own noses under a few inches of water...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of the following as the junior eight; Nicholas F. Bunnin, of Adams House and Los Angeles, Calif., social studies; Joel E. Cohen, of Adams and Washington, D.C., mathematics; Alan M. Eisner, of Winthrop and New York City, physics...