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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Run On Sentence

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 pm

"You can run on for a long time." — Johnny Cash

"Arnold H. Lubasch, who covered crime and the courts
for The New York Times  for more than 30 years and
later wrote a biography of the actor and civil rights
activist Paul Robeson, died on Friday [Feb. 5, 2016] 
in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 83." 

— Daniel E. Slotnik in The New York Times  tonight

Related soundtrack lyric —

Air date:  January 14, 2016.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Princeton Symmetry

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:37 am

From this journal nine years ago today, on the
anniversary of Stanley finding Livingstone —

Click on the image for the Princeton connection.

Related art — Search Log24 for Time + Eternity.

See as well the theater producer pictured in last night's post
and a Princeton-related* review of one of his productions.

Footnote of November 11, 2015:

* Related, that is, only by the "Princeton connection" mentioned above.
For another Princeton connection of interest, see a symposium at
Princeton University on May Day, 2015 —

THE PEDAGOGY OF IMAGES:  
 DEPICTING  COMMUNISM  FOR  CHILDREN

A sample symposium participant:

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Colorful Tale

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:45 am

Continued.

"Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature
of modern science is the emergence of abstract
symbolic structures as the hard core of objectivity
behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful tale
of the subjective storyteller mind."

— Hermann Weyl in Philosophy of Mathematics
     and Natural Science
 , Princeton, 1949, p. 237

Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word  (1975) :

"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde  understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."

The Weyl quote is a continuing theme in this journal.
The Wolfe quote appeared here on Nov. 18, 2014,
the reported date of death of Yale graduate student 
Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal.

Directions to her burial (see yesterday evening) include
a mention of "Paul Robson Street" (actually Paul
Robeson Place) near "the historic Princeton Cemetery."

This, together with the remarks by Tom Wolfe posted
here on the reported day of her death, suggests a search
for "red green black" —

The late Chichilnisky-Heal was a student of political economy.

The search colors may be interpreted, if one likes, as referring
to politics (red), economics (green), and Robeson (black).

See also Robeson in this journal.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Hymn

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 am

Suggested by a Saturday death in Jersey City:

Somewhere, over the gray space

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Songs and Fingerplays

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 pm

To Pay Paul

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110608-WitherspoonChurch.jpg

From Princeton Public Library (65 Witherspoon St., on map above)—

Songs and Fingerplays—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110608-FamilyStories.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110608-PrincetonPublicLibrary.jpg

Fingerplay— See this morning's 10:30 AM post.

Song— Paul Robeson sings "Summertime."

See also the Harvard version.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Requiem for Georgia Brown

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:45 am

Image-- Lena Horne in 'Cabin in the Sky'

Paul Robeson in
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—

Image -- The cast of 1937's 'King Solomon's Mines' goes back to the future

The image above is an illustration from
  "Romancing the Hyperspace," May 4, 2010.

This illustration, along with Georgia Brown's
song from "Cabin in the Sky"—
"There's honey in the honeycomb"—
suggests the following picture.

Image-- Galois Tesseract and Hyperspace (the 4-space over GF(2)). Source: Coxeter's 'Twisted Honeycombs'

"What might have been and what has been
   Point to one end, which is always present."
Four Quartets

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Tuesday June 5, 2007

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:08 am
Princeton:
A Whirligig Tour

Symbol from a
website on
“Presbyterian
Creedal Standards”

The above symbol
appeared here
on 11/8/02.

Related material:

1. The remarks of
Bradley Whitford

at Princeton’s
Class Day yesterday:

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix07/070605-Whitford.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

2. An illustration from
Log 24 on 11/10/06:

Paul Robeson in
King Solomon’s
Mines

Counterchange
symmetry

3. The Whirligig of Time
(1/5/03):

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4. Natalie Angier, priestess of Scientism
  (5/26/07), and her new book
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of
the Beautiful Basics of Science
(available as a special from
Amazon.com):

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Friday November 10, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:31 pm

Livingstone

On this date:

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

— AP “Today in History,” Nov. 10

Related material:

The history
of Princeton’s
Witherspoon Street
Presbyterian Church

1 Peter 2, on the
“living stone.”
NIV Bible

“Counter-change is
sometimes known as
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.”
 — Helen Kelley Patchwork

Paul Robeson in
King Solomon’s
Mines

Counterchange
symmetry

See also Wednesday’s
Grave Matters.

Saturday, November 1, 2003

Saturday November 1, 2003

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:05 pm

Symmetry in Diamond Theory:
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

"Groups arise in most areas of pure and applied mathematics, usually as a set of operators or transformations of some structure. The appearance of a group generally reflects some kind of symmetry in the object under study, and such symmetry may be considered one of the fundamental notions of mathematics."

Peter Webb

"Counter-change is sometimes known as Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."

Helen Kelley Patchwork

Paul Robeson in
King Solomon's
Mines

Counterchange
symmetry

For a look at the Soviet approach
to counterchange symmetry, see

The Kishinev School of Discrete Geometry.

The larger cultural context:

See War of Ideas (Oct. 24),
The Hunt for Red October (Oct. 25),
On the Left (Oct. 25), and
ART WARS for Trotsky's Birthday (Oct. 26).
 

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Wednesday April 9, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:25 am

Hearts of Darkness

Today's birthdays:

Charles Baudelaire, poet, b. 1821

Leopold II, King of Belgium, b. 1835

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, b. 1928

In view of these birthdays and of yesterday's entry quoting Eliot on "the Shadow," the following trilogy of links seems appropriate:

The Lamont Cranston:

Part I   Part II   Part III

Nota bene:

Today is also the birthday of
Paul Robeson and J. William Fulbright,
shadows to respect.

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