Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This family's-eye view of genius was written by Son-in-Law Dimitri Marianoff, husband of Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, in collaboration with Writer Palma Wayne. Marianoff, who lived with the Einstein family for eight years, reports that the Einstein home in Princeton is visited by a constant stream of the world's great-statesmen, bankers, diplomats, composers, actors, writers, scientists. Hordes of correspondents from every corner of the world ask him for advice, money, help in scientific problems and personal affairs. He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused...
Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
What to do? The party might fall back on its political genius, hope to win the peace even if the war were lost (see FOREIGN NEWS). But that would be easier to plan than to perform. The Allied forces were strong enough to smash "slow delaying actions." And how long, and how well, could German troops fight, once they knew they were no longer fighting...
...subject for musical comedy, the frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three...
Lutes before the Leap. Lutes's genius lies in being able to move into a field, take a quick look around and organize the supply job on the spot. After Cairo he swung rapidly through North Africa, India, China. He traveled across the Pacific, made several trips to England for fast, involved checkups...