Go Leonards
Yesterday's entry may be viewed as honoring Saint Leonard Eugene Dickson, who died on January 17, 1954. Dickson was the author of the three-volume classic
History of the Theory of Numbers.
Yesterday's entry was also prompted by a property of the number 17, and therefore may serve to illustrate a recurring theme… "The eternal in the temporal," an apt phrase uttered by Father Egan on page 373 of Robert Stone's religious classic,
Click on the above link for an appreciation of the Stone novel by Reynolds Price, one of the few Christians whose opinion I respect.
See also some remarks by Price from the feast day, Nov. 6, of the official Saint Leonard.
For a different Saint Leonard, see the entry of Oct. 14, 2003, which contains remarks by Leonard Bernstein on Mahler.
For a musical event that may be regarded as the fruition of Bernstein's remarks, see
Vatican invites rabbis, Muslim clerics
for concert featuring
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
By Dennis B. Roddy,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Sunday, January 18, 2004