Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Senator whose office he now occupies. Suite 326 of the Old Senate Office Building used to be Robert A. Taft's lair, but its new appointments scarcely reflect the tastes of the man who was known as "Mr. Republican." Busts of John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein adorn the current occupant's office. So does a Larry Rivers impressionistic landscape of Manhattan's Second Avenue, a scene so remote from the pastoral America of Taft that it might as well be a moonscape...
...newest heroes are scientists. Though inventors such as Eli Whitney, Edison or Bell have long been acknowledged, only Einstein among the pure scientists held a place in the U.S. consciousness until World War II. Today the roster would be long, studded with such names as Teller, Oppenheimer and Waksman. Another set of latter-day heroes are physicians, whose list would include Drs. Fleming, DeBakey, Salk and Paul Dudley White. Among businessmen, only Henry Ford has achieved anything like heroic dimensions, although such magnates as Astor and Carnegie were heroes to their day. The values of commerce, no matter how much...
...results are finishes that are impersonal, materials that are industrial: plastic, Formica, steel, chrome plate, baked enamel, fluorescent lights. One of the artists in the exhibition studied naval architecture, another engineering. Their lingo is strictly post-Einstein; they speak of their art in terms of space warp, time lines, and optic energy...
...himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...
...tries, Wald says, to make it "a happy course." Notorious for name-dropping, he tosses in references to "and then I said to Einstein, 'But Albert . . .' "?and his audience, as on cue, hisses in chorus. Wald pretends to ignore this, actually loves it. "He isn't really teaching," says Freshman Tom Zanna. "He's inspiring." Radcliffe English Major Valerie Rough says she is "spiritually majoring in biology" because Wald makes it "so esthetically appealing." Harvard Dean of Arts and Sciences Franklin Ford says Wald generates an "amazing quality of intellectual excitement...