Heidegger’s birthday: September 26.
Einstein’s birthday: March 14.
Fred Zinnemann, who won an Oscar
for directing “From Here to Eternity“:
Zinnemann’s birthday: today, April 29.
In honor of Zinnemann, a cheerful man, who died on Einstein’s birthday in 1997, our site music today is the cheerful Gershwin tune “Our Love Is Here To Stay.” In honor of Olivia Newton-John (granddaughter of physicist Max Born), who notably portrayed the Muse Terpsichore in “Xanadu”◊ and who shares a September 26 birthday with Gershwin, T. S. Eliot, and Heidegger, today’s midi of “Our Love” has a special arrangement. Ms. Newton-John might wish to commemorate the romance (“Passionate!” — Yale University Press) of Hannah Arendt, a Jewish political theorist, and Heidegger, a Catholic Nazi, by listening to “Our Love” on the acoustic bass and glockenspiel.†
Terpsichore is the Muse of Dance.
See also Einstein’s first paper on relativity:
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,”
Annalen der Physik,
September 26, 1905.
◊ Not to be confused with an Orson Welles
film based on the life of
William Randolph Hearst,
whose birthday is also today.
† Glockenspiel means “bell-play.”
See Metaphysics for Tina.
Man, you just get more connections in each post than even seems possible. I think that’s why I always read you.
Incidentally, glockenspiel is one of my favorite words.
Comment by starboard — Tuesday, April 29, 2003 @ 3:36 pm