This post was suggested by today's Harvard Crimson story
Protest at Primal Scream Leads to Chaotic Exchange.
Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker —
"Biddies still cleaned the student rooms."
Above, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in
"Sunshine Cleaning" (2008).
The Cleaner:
A scene from Bridget Fonda's "Point of No Return" (1993)
in a video uploaded six years ago on this date.
"In 2005 Arthur Jaffe succeeded Sir Michael Atiyah as
Chair of the Board of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Theoretical Physics."
Related material:
Biddies in this journal and…
Detail:
An early version of quaternions.
"It's a grim joke." — Amy Adams in "The Master"
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling…
Click diagram for some background from 3/17.
See, too, some background on Amy Adams and on Leap Day.
For related Harvard humor, see Venn Diagram.
"Translation in the direction
conceptual -> concrete and symbolic
is much easier than
translation in the reverse direction…."
— The late William P. Thurston
(See also "Atlas to the Text," Harvard Crimson , March 8, 2011).
Related cinematic imagery
Conceptual (thanks to Don DeLillo and The New York Times )—
Concrete and symbolic (thanks to Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, as well as
Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker )—
"Biddies still cleaned the student rooms."
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