Word: methematician
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Simone Weil was born in 1909 in Paris, to Dr. Bernard Weil and his wife, Selma. By Petrement's account Simone's were model parents--cultured yet unaffected, proud of their children's successes but not pushy, fun-loving and emotionally honest. Simone and her brother Andre, a precocious methematician who currently works at the Center for Advanced Study at Princeton, enjoyed a materially privileged and psychologically peaceful childhood--spending early years and summers in the country and benefitting from the best of Parisian schooling during their teens and early twenties...
...story was compounded by a methematician, not written by a writer. This Hollywood Einstein has taken a man, his wife, and their two daughters, equated them with a young obstetrician, a Frenchman, and a worldly aunt, and triumphantly made it all come out even. The Frenchman and the obstetrician account for the two daughters, while the husband and wife remain idyllicly united, despite some complications with the worldly aunt, who cops the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the only character in the picture who doesn't remind the audience at least one that "this is 1876!" "Centennial Summer's" ingenuity...
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