"At Cambridge, where he studied in the 30s, he had
a reputation for omniscience. Running the local
Communist party cell from the set of college rooms
beneath Wittgenstein's, the youthful Hobsbawm was
invited to join the exclusive Apostles society."
— Mark Mazower in The Guardian , Oct. 1, 2012
* See related posts from Oct. 1, 2, and 5, 2012.
“And how do we keep our balance?
That I can tell you in one word!”
— Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
“The object and characteristic of ‘traditions,’
including invented ones, is invariance.”
— Eric Hobsbawm, introduction (link added)
to The Invention of Tradition
“Math is all about questions and answers.”
— Prof. John D. McCarthy, Michigan State U.,
Monday afternoon, October 1, 2012
“Who knows where madness lies?”
— Man of La Mancha
(linked to here Monday morning)
"Self-evidently true and just"
— The late Stephen Jay Gould
on a book by the late Barry Commoner.
Commoner reportedly died on Sunday.
Update of 5:42 PM ET—
Another academic death, this one from today—
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