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Albert Einstein's is a superb mind. In his world nothing stands still. All moves; all changes. There are no straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge...
...marketing a product quaintly titled Lymeswold. The first European-style blue-veined full-soft cheese ever developed in the U.K., it resembles a German variety of Brie in texture and appearance; in flavor it is somewhat like Italian dolcelatte, a milder cousin of gorgonzola. It has a white rind, costs up to $5.70 per lb., and will last as long as six weeks in the refrigerator. The cheese was developed by the Milk Marketing Board, the national dairy cooperative, and is so popular at home that no supplies have yet been made available to the colonies...
...totalitarian "socialism," have forgotten their democratic origins. Thus what unites yesterday's conservatives with today's radicals is not only a just anti-imperialism, but also the authoritarian and antidemocratic temple. In the Mexican middle class, the breeding ground of our leaders, it is common to rind an amalgam of the conservative sentiments of the criollos [Mexicans of pure Spanish blood] of the 19th century with the diffuse anti-imperialist ideology of the 20th. These traditional beliefs, heirs of the criollo aristocracy, are the unconscious psychological foundation and the hidden source of the modern authoritarian ideologies professed...
...narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...
Like a giant slice of orange rind, the scaffolding pulled away from the cement that had been laid the previous day, and hurtled to the ground. Said Katie Robinson, a worker's wife: "When the scaffold began to fall from one end, 12 or 15 men were trying to find a way off, and they walked back one way and then they turned around, and I thought they were going to try to jump. But then it all came down and the safety net wrapped around the men. I could see them all bundled up inside, and they fell...