"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.
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:
"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.
From Princeton Public Library (65 Witherspoon St., on map above)—
Songs and Fingerplays—
Fingerplay— See this morning's 10:30 AM post.
Song— Paul Robeson sings "Summertime."
See also the Harvard version.
Paul Robeson in
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—
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.
"What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present."
— Four Quartets
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:
2. An illustration from
Log 24 on 11/10/06:
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3. The Whirligig of Time
(1/5/03):
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):
| Better Together Buy this book with God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens today!
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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
1 Peter 2, on the
“living stone.”
— NIV Bible
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See also Wednesday’s
Grave Matters.
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."
"Counter-change is sometimes known as Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."
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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).
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:
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Nota bene:
Today is also the birthday of
Paul Robeson and J. William Fulbright,
shadows to respect.
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