The title is a phrase by Kyle Smith, who writes with
considerable taste and little envy.
Then there is Rebecca Newberger Goldstein . . .
See as well Heidegger at Davos.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Continental Taste-Envy
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Four-Year* Date
"Eigenvalues. Fixed points. Stable equilibria.
Mathematicians like things that stay put.
And if they can't stay put, the objects of study
should at least repeat themselves on a regular basis. . . ."
— Barry Cipra, "A Moveable Feast," SIAM News , Jan. 14, 2006
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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* For a full four years, see also March 18, 2013.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
More Harvard Ignorance
"… the leftist war on truth, the never-ending campaign
to recast objective fact as subjective and open to question."
— Kyle Smith in The New Criterion on March 18
"A sort of flint stone" —
See also the above six-part image in the previous post.
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Monday, March 20, 2017
December 1987 at Yale
"I was at the time a Yale English major (we read, appreciated,
and discussed the meaning of literature) sunk in the toxic quagmire
of the one and only course I ever took in the literature department
(where authorial intent was ignored and every 'text' was considered
solely on how comfortably it nestled within the shackles of Marxism)."
"For decades de Man had been an avatar not just of leftist politics
but also of the leftist war on truth, the never-ending campaign
to recast objective fact as subjective and open to question."
— Kyle Smith in The New Criterion on March 18
See as well other posts mentioning Kyle Smith in this journal.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Southwestern Noir
Kyle Smith on April 15, 2015, in the New York Post —
"The ludicrous action thriller 'Beyond the Reach'
fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency
of 'No Country for Old Men,' but there’s no denying
it brings to mind another Southwestern classic
about malicious pursuit: the Road Runner cartoons."
See also ….
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Saturday, April 18, 2015
The Acme Corporation Presents…
Kyle Smith on April 15 in the New York Post —
"The ludicrous action thriller 'Beyond the Reach'
fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency
of 'No Country for Old Men,' but there’s no denying
it brings to mind another Southwestern classic
about malicious pursuit: the Road Runner cartoons."
Related material:
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Legespiel Meets Würfelspiel in…
Gift of the Third Kind
(April 7, 2007), featuring Ellen Yi-Luen Do —
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the current home page of Ellen Yi-Luen Do,
now at Georgia Tech, and… - a page about her ACME Lab —
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Welcome to ACME lab!
Yes, the name is both confusing and has
We call it ACME Creativity Machine Environment – We like recursive ideas. |
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
Yale Mot
From a New York Post review of "Clouds of Sils Maria,"
a film that opened yesterday —
"Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s
being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving
so much open-ended. But you can tell what really
interests him isn’t doing the work of a serious artist
but the comfy trappings of one — the swank dining
rooms, the posh cars with drivers always at the ready.
What’s French for bourgeois? Never mind.
'Clouds' isn’t a film but an idea for a film —
unfinished, unsatisfying, undergraduate."
From this date last year:
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
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