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...Gerhard Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing Girl -strained on their pedestals as uncomfortably as an ununderstood remark. Still others were what the man in the street calls screwball art. Only quality this sculpture had in common: individuality. Gallery-goers took a long, long look, wondered whether Europe would ever see its like again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Democracy on Pedestals | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Professor Einstein says there is no such ether. Energy in all its aspects, he thinks, proceeds through empty space. His astounding and generally ununderstood mathematical formulae are elegant kaleidoscopes in which almost all the infinite fractions of nature shift upon each other to form infinite patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dynamic Universe | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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