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...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...
...GIANT DWARFS by Gisela Elsner. 309 pages. Grove Press...
...Gisela Elsner's novel is composed of ordinary events in Leinlein's life: breakfast with Mama and Papa, watching Papa at work, a day with Grandmama, a quarrel between his parents, a country outing with the family. But through...
...Gisela Oster, for instance, whose husband Gerald had two black and white eye foolers in the show, gave him some dazzling competition with a turquoise-and-white-striped evening coat over a turquoise-and-white-striped long dress, but Sculptor Marilynn Karp outstriped her by running her black and white stripes from dress to stockings to shoes. Painter Jane Wilson was completely optical in a sleek, hooded sheath of white organdy, delightfully dizzy in disks of black and grey. Magazine Editor Pat Coffin wrapped herself in a giant silk stole of peristaltic black dots on a white field that...
...famed University of Pittsburgh laboratories where the Salk polio vaccine was invented, Dr. Gisela Ruckle, a German émigrée, reported that she had grown 25 generations of the measles virus in test tubes. The virus had hitherto defied domestication; now researchers may be able to make an effective measles vaccine...