Dr Einstein's neighborhood
Fremantle, Anne
THE LAST WORD DR. EINSTEIN'S NEIGHBORHOOD Anne Fremantle Anne Fremantle, the prolific writer and editor, died in London on December 26,2002. She was ninety-three. A convert to Catholicism, she...
...But Dr...
...And he said, "Yes, there is much of Berkeley in the quantum theory...
...Marga, a musician, and her sister, a German professor, lived next door to Lady Margaret Hall...
...James Kritzeck, the "sole basis of agreement among the group was specifically defined as Jacques Maritain's address before the Second International Conference on UNESCO at Mexico City in 1947...
...We could tell when spring came because then he wore sandals, instead of galosh-es, on his daily walk from the small, clapboard, green-shuttered house to the Institute...
...Once I was alone here with my daughter our dear Miss Ducas was out...
...I could not follow them, so just stared at the beautiful face with the aureole of white hair, and the unforgettable eyebrows, and the unique per-venche blue eyes...
...marvelously clear, even for such unscientific characters as most of us were...
...And my husband told him, yes...
...That was twenty-five years ago...
...But he felt strongly about water...
...The dear God indeed does not play dice...
...He could be very funny too once, when I was in his house, he pointed out the closed screen door approvingly...
...Neither do I see what you are telling me,' I said...
...The last time I saw Dr...
...but already we knew he was the greatest man in the world...
...it should not be quoted out of context...
...Einstein first at Oxford...
...All my life I have been pursued by cranks...
...A convert to Catholicism, she became an American citizen after moving her family to the United States in 1942...
...The following article ("Albert Einstein: A Reminiscence") appeared in the May 6,1955, Commonweal...
...Anthony Standen asked him if when he said "der lieber Gott wurfelt nicht" ("God does not play dice"), it implied he believed in God...
...Einstein, for the Denekes' sake, gave a talk to the girls at LMH...
...As great as Newton...
...And the next evening he played the fiddle and Marga the piano, in the big music room at Gunfield...
...Then, after we reverted to Augustine's idea of time, which Dr...
...He quipped with the old too a surly eighty-year-old boasted on his birthday that Einstein had kidded him on his great age as he was "cleaning up in front...
...He was staying with the Denekes...
...Finally I got a chair and sat down, and still the man talked, separated from me only by the screen door...
...And he replied, "Yes...
...and would not be drawn out...
...Einstein said, "That was in a private letter...
...May the light even he could not measure shine perpetually upon him...
...Fremantle at Saint Thomas More Church in New York City on February 20 at 4 p.m...
...I asked, "Like God in the quod...
...as later my wondering ten-year-old asked, after meeting Dr...
...From 1947 to 1958, she was an editor at Commonweal...
...Once, walking back from the Institute, he spoke of the lowering of the water table as more serious for the world than even the threat of war: "If I were dictator I would charge for water, everywhere...
...Very useful against cranks," he said...
...In summer, sometimes, he would stop as I sprayed the lawn, clumsily wetting myself...
...Einstein spoke of the quantum theory in terms a chemist would understand...
...the book-lined room was very quiet, when suddenly Dr...
...And my daughter was afraid of the man, so I came down, and he tried to argue and argue with me...
...There will be a memorial service for Ms...
...and he never made a more dedicated human being, or a more noble, saintly, and gentle neighbor than Albert Einstein...
...The big window facing him looked out on a sunny lawn...
...Einstein said was subjective one time for the butterfly, one for the tortoise, another for man "But there is objective time, physical time" that the star's light is measured by, he said...
...If people had to pay for it they would not waste it so much...
...There, there.' 'I don't see any crayfish,' he replied...
...Einstein for the first time...
...He would always stop and jest with the children, and there are countless stories of how he did this small girl's arithmetic or that small boy's sums...
...It's only water," he would say, laughing...
...Suddenly I said, 'Look look at that crayfish.' 'Where?' the crank said, startled...
...Einstein we talked for an hour of "Augustine's idea of time...
...She frequently appeared on radio and television, and served as secretary and vice-president of American P.E.N...
...And after that he went quietly away...
...Oppenheimer, and Dr...
...It cannot be replaced, the water table," he said...
...Yet, at a meeting at the Institute where there were only himself, Julian Huxley, Dr...
...She authored or edited more than a score of books, including poetry, fiction, and criticism, and held numerous university positions...
...I met Dr...
...Einstein said something I understood: "If you accept the quantum theory, then macrocosms have no localization in space unless observed...
...I asked...
...Cranks...
...Anthony Standen, a chemist, was with us, and said it was marvelous how Dr...
Vol. 130 • February 2003 • No. 3
