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...sight, sound, taste and perfume of your "Legend of Dylan Thomas" have a true splendor . . . How Poet Thomas would have enjoyed...
Einstein's only instruments were a pencil and scratchpad; his laboratory was under his cap. Yet he saw farther than a telescope, deeper than a microscope. Einstein traveled in lonely splendor to the crossroads of the visible and the invisible, expressing each in terms of the other. He came close to proving by mathematicians' logic what men of religion had long accepted on philosophers' reasoning or faith: that the laws which move the tiniest unseen electrons must also govern the macrocosms of intergalactic space. Einstein's scratchpad theorems broke through the thought barriers of knowledge...
...strengthened the foundations of the Entente Cordiale. His muddled pursuit of one of his uncle's favorite foreign-policy dreams led to the unification of Italy. He gave France its first legal trade unions and old-age pensions. Above all, his determination to give Paris a Napoleonic splendor resulted in the city's spacious boulevards...
...richly decorated home outside St. Louis, a ruptured abdominal blood vessel unexpectedly struck down Joseph Pulitzer II, 70, son and namesake of the founder of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 387,398) and the former New York World. Twenty-seven hours later, at Wheaton, Ill., in the splendor of his 35-room Georgian mansion, death after a two-year illness came to Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, boss of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 892,058) and nominal boss of its Manhattan cousin, the Daily News (circ...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Norman Foster, bass-baritone; Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jascha Horenstein; Vox). These beautiful "songs for dead children," written more than 50 years ago, limn the gloomy sentiments of the discouraged Mahler and the aging splendor of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Boston's Norman Foster does them with a fine, lyrical sense...