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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Death of a Critic

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:18 pm
 

The New York Times —

Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic
in Love With Boston, Dies at 88

By Penelope Green

May 27, 2025  Updated 1:44 p.m. ET

Robert Campbell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The Boston Globe who for more than 40 years wrote with clarity, wit and, yes, love about a city in transition, died on April 29 at an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Mass. He was 88.

. . . .

Robert was an English major at Harvard and wrote his honors thesis on the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He went on to study journalism at Columbia University and then worked as a staff writer for Parade magazine. But what he really wanted to do was practice architecture, so he returned to Cambridge, where he attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He graduated in 1967.

Related April 29 material Turnstile as empty space marker

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Annals of Branding:  The Turnstile*

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"There's just an empty space" 

— "Against All Odds" song lyric

Illustration . . .

https://cage.ugent.be/geometry/links.php

* For the turnstile symbol itself, see Wikipedia.

Annals of Bulk Apperception:  Belgium Date

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Brick Song

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:34 pm

Prologue — "Teaching a brick to sing"

The teacher . . . Emily Blunt in "Fall Guy" . . .

Vide  her karaoke version of "Take a Look at Me Now."

Monday, April 21, 2025

♪ Three Coins in the Fountain . . . ♪

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Vide  Valentine's Day 2003.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

From Harlan Kane’s Gotham Times Bestseller —
Liam Neeson in THE NAKED EIGHT!

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. . . A Sequel to "Unknown" . . .

IMAGE- Frank Langella and Liam Neeson in 'Unknown'

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sunday April 22, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:09 am

Shine On, Hermann Weyl

"Be on the lookout for
Annie Dillard's sequel to
Teaching a Stone to Talktitled
Teaching a Brick to Sing."

William Butler Yeats —

"Poets and Wits about him drew;
'What then?' sang Plato's ghost.
   'What then?'

'The work is done,'
   grown old he thought,
'According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage,
   I swerved in naught,
Something to perfection brought';
But louder sang that ghost,
   'What then?'
"

Duet

Scarlett Johansson —

"Let's give 'em somethin'
   to talk about,
A little mystery
   to figure out"

(Saturday Night Live,
 April 21, 2007)

Plato's ghost —

"The clothes she wears,
   the sexy ways,
Make an old man wish
   for younger days
She knows she's built
   and knows how to please
Sho 'nuff can knock
   a strong man to his knees

She's a brick… house…
Mighty mighty,
   just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick… house…
The lady's stacked
   and that's a fact,
Ain't holdin' nothin' back.

Shake it down,
   shake it down now"

Saturday, November 9, 2002

Saturday November 9, 2002

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:44 am

Birthdate of Hermann Weyl

Weyl


Plato's Diamond

Result of a Google search.

Category:  Science > Math > Algebra > Group Theory 

Weyl, H.: Symmetry.
Description of the book Symmetry by Weyl, H., published by Princeton University Press. pup.princeton.edu/titles/
865.html – 7k – Nov. 8, 2002

Sponsored Link

Symmetry Puzzle
New free online puzzle illustrates
the mathematics of symmetry.

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Quotation from Weyl's Symmetry:

"Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect."

In honor of Princeton University, of Sylvia Nasar (see entries of Nov, 6), of the Presbyterian Church (see entry of Nov. 8), and of Professor Weyl (whose work partly inspired the website Diamond Theory), this site's background music is now Pink Floyd's

 

 

"Shine On, 
   You Crazy Diamond."
   


 

Updates of Friday, November 15, 2002:

In order to clarify the meaning of "Shine" and "Crazy" in the above, consult the following —

To accompany this detailed exegesis of Pink Floyd, click here for a reading by Marlon Brando.

For a related educational experience, see pages 126-127 of The Book of Sequels, by Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, and Sean Kelly (Random House paperback, 1990).

Speaking of sequels, be on the lookout for Annie Dillard's sequel to Teaching a Stone to Talktitled Teaching a Brick to Sing.

 

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