Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trampolines for a spry intelligence; the escape from solemnity required a more studied effort. Oddly, Roth's most exciting work of the '70s remains relatively unknown: two long stories first published in American Review. In On the Air, a talent agent named Lippman attempts to book Albert Einstein as radio's first Jewish Answer Man, only to find that the road to Princeton is a gauntlet of murderous anti-Semites. Looking at Kafka began as a critical essay and gracefully unfurled into a fantasy in which Kafka did not die in 1924 but emigrated to New Jersey...
...time of Depression better than the people themselves did. He calculated the productive potential of America before World War II more accurately than did the leaders of industry. Franklin Roosevelt "anticipated history," said his friend Winston Churchill. Thus, within ten days after Roosevelt received the letter from Albert Einstein warning about the possible development of an atomic bomb, the U.S. rushed toward the Manhattan Project over the resistance of its own military leaders. The commanders were countered by a message sent out through Aide "Pa" Watson: "But the boss wants it, boys...
...photographer in Paris before fleeing to the U.S. in 1940, one step ahead of the Nazis. In New York, he became a frequent contributor to Look, the Saturday Evening Post and LIFE, for which he did more covers (101) than any other photographer. Three of his portraits-of Albert Einstein, John Steinbeck and Adlai Stevenson-appeared on postage stamps. These and others of John Kennedy and Winston Churchill are so indelible that one critic noted, "The chances are, when we see [these figures] in our mind's eye, we are seeing the Halsman image...
Such structural underpinning helps the writer more than the reader. For all his fascination with the theories of Einstein and Freud, with the fragmenting of personality and time, Durrell fortunately remains a devotee of Scheherazade. Livia stands comfortably on its own as a polished romance filled with bright, interesting characters. They gather in the 1930s at Avignon, home of the medieval and mysterious Knights Templars. The air is "full of the scent of lemons and mandarines and honeysuckle" and of something else: dread of the future that Hitler is planning across the border in Germany. Durrell is still prone...
...learn as much in astrophysics from two days from Einstein as we learned in the first