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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...
¶ Decide whether you enjoy responsibility, and if not, accept no more of it. It is through unwanted responsibility that a promotion can prove lethal.
GENERAL MOTORS raised nearly $325 million when stockholders bought 98.5% of the 4,380,683 new shares the company offered them at $75 a share (recent market price: 96 ⅞). Stockholders could buy one new share for every 20 held or sell their rights to another purchaser. Morgan Stanley & Co...
THE SELF-BETRAYED, by Joseph Wechsberg (301 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). Czech-born Author Wechsberg often patrols the same prose beat as Tyrolean-born Ludwig Bemelmans; on it the major misdemeanors are underdone Wiener Schnitzel and overdone Central European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a...
Participants in a psychodrama group stand around the stage before each session, chatting with Enneis and among themselves to decide who shall be the first "star" and what aspects of life to portray. After the-y have attended a couple of sessions, they are usually surprisingly willing to go onstage...