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...modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard of the Bolshevik Revolution, was no less attentive to his mistress Lili Brik, though his poems were scarcely as complimentary as Aragon's. Lili was Elsa's older sister, and the series of stunning lyrics that Mayakovsky dedicated to her in the 1910s and 1920s agonized over her indifference...
...True, the essayists are earnest and erudite, and their prose is rarely worse than that required to win the fellowships and respect of academe. But the capital offenses are all here: the preening citations of the obvious: "In the film The Bride of Frankenstein, as Albert LaValley reminds us, Elsa Lanchester plays both Mary Shelley and the monstrous bride . . ."; the fancy notion among professors that authors and characters " articulate" rather than speak; the impossibly pretentious titles ("Vital Artifice: Mary, Percy, and the Psychopolitical Integrity of Frankenstein "). Pity the poor parodist when such things are written seriously. Never mind. Mary Shelley...
This is Einstein's fourth appearance on the cover of TIME since 1929 (not counting a lighthearted 1930 profile of his doting wife Elsa). For Golden, who has been a TIME science writer since 1969, the cur rent explosion of Einsteiniana presented an opportunity to fill a major gap in his education. Golden delved into the growing body of writing on relativity and consulted nearly a dozen leading experts. He also interviewed several of Einstein's former associates and his longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week...
...give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce, Einstein married his widowed cousin Elsa...
Portraits: the Work of Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Weegee, August Sanders, and Home Shapshots--Elsa Dorfman, Mather game room...