A Curse on the Theoreticians

Review of The Painted Word. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, May 27, 1975.

One can imagine Tom Wolfe doing his number on Albert Einstein. The slightly absent-minded appearance of the young physicist in Bern. (Doubtless Mr. Wolfe would come up with an absurdly minute catalogue to identify the style and sources of the rumpled clothes.) The thinker in his study, staring off into the middle distance and jotting down…

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