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“The challenge is to keep high standards of scholarship while maintaining showmanship as well.” |
— Olga Raggio, a graduate of the Vatican library school
and the University of Rome
This quote is from posts tagged The Positive.
A review of those posts was suggested by the date of a different quote,
from a "Timeless" episode that aired on January 16, 2017 —
The late film director Micky Moore playing St. Mark as a child:
See also a clip introducing St. Mark from DeMille's 1927 "The King of Kings."
Moore reportedly died at 98 at his Malibu home on March 4th.
This journal at 5:48 PM EST on Thursday, March 10, 2011—
(Continued from February 19)
The cover of the April 1, 1970 second edition of
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , by Thomas S. Kuhn—
Note the quote on the cover—
"A landmark in intellectual history."— Science
This afternoon's online New York Times—
Google today, asked to "define:landmark," yields—
Or: Ready When You Are, C. B.
Dennis McLellan, Special to The Los Angeles Times , May 7, 2013:
Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, Harryhausen was 13
when he saw "King Kong" during its run at Grauman's Chinese
Theater in Hollywood.
"I haven't been the same since," he is repeatedly quoted
as saying over the years.
"I came out of the theater awestruck," Harryhausen elaborated
in a 1999 interview with the Chicago Tribune. "It was such a
totally different, unusual film. The story line led you from the
mundane world into the most outrageous fantasy that's ever
been put on the screen."
A Sunday meditation continued from Burning Patrick—
For posts of a different sort, see O'Hara's Fingerpost and Cross-Purposes.
(The numbers of these posts were indicated by today's midday NY Lottery.)
See also "Ready when you are, C.B."
From this journal on July 23, 2007—
| It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves. We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness. And if we ate the incipient colorings – Wallace Stevens, “The Rock” |
This quotation from Stevens (Harvard class of 1901) was posted here on when Daniel Radcliffe (i.e., Harry Potter) turned 18 in July 2007.
Other material from that post suggests it is time for a review of magic at Harvard.
On September 9, 2007, President Faust of Harvard
“encouraged the incoming class to explore Harvard’s many opportunities.
‘Think of it as a treasure room of hidden objects Harry discovers at Hogwarts,’ Faust said.”
That class is now about to graduate.
It is not clear what “hidden objects” it will take from four years in the Harvard treasure room.
Perhaps the following from a book published in 1985 will help…
The March 8, 2011, Harvard Crimson illustrates a central topic of Metamagical Themas , the Rubik’s Cube—
Hofstadter in 1985 offered a similar picture—
Hofstadter asks in his Metamagical introduction, “How can both Rubik’s Cube and nuclear Armageddon be discussed at equal length in one book by one author?”
For a different approach to such a discussion, see Paradigms Lost, a post made here a few hours before the March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster—
Whether Paradigms Lost is beyond forgetfulness is open to question.
Perhaps a later post, in the lighthearted spirit of Faust, will help. See April 20th’s “Ready When You Are, C.B.“
See also Harvard's Memorial Church in "Ready when you are, C. B."—
HARVARD CRIMSON/ ALEX R. LEVIN
Sharon Stone lectures at
Harvard's Memorial Church
on March 14, 2005…
The title is from the Leap Day, 2004, post for Academy Awards day.
Two items from December 16, 2007 —
From a photographer's journal — Kofel, Oberammergau, 12/16/07
From this journal — Mad Phaedrus Meets Mad Ezra, 12/16/07
See also yesterday's Rosetta and the Stone and Ross Douthat in today's New York Times —
"Thanks in part to this bunker mentality, American Christianity has become what Hunter calls a 'weak culture'— one that mobilizes but doesn’t convert, alienates rather than seduces, and looks backward toward a lost past instead of forward to a vibrant future. In spite of their numerical strength and reserves of social capital, he argues, the Christian churches are mainly influential only in the 'peripheral areas' of our common life. In the commanding heights of culture, Christianity punches way below its weight."
Saturday Night Live on December 4, 2010 —
If you liked Harlan Kane's THE ABACUS CONUNDRUM, you'll love…
THE LOTTERY ENIGMA —
New York Lottery on Sunday, December 5, 2010
Related links— For 076, yesterday's entry on "Independence Day."
For 915, see 9/15, "Holy Cross Day Revisited," and its prequel,
linked to on 9/15 as "Ready When You Are, C.B."
See also "Citizen Harlan" and "The Beaver."
The following remark this evening by Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post serves as an instant review of today's previous cinematic Log24 offering starring the late Patrick Swayze:
"Watch it, forget it, move on."
A perhaps more enduring tribute:
“Anakin Skywalker, otherwise known
as Darth Vader, is arguably
the central character in
George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’….“
— Amazon.com review
Ken Annakin, classic action
filmmaker, dies at 94 —
“Annakin’s last name
was the source
of the name for
Anakin Skywalker.”
“Contrary to previous reports that George Lucas named the ‘Star Wars’ character Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) after Annakin, Lucas said via his publicist Thursday that he did not.”
Mike O’Sullivan, Voice of America LA bureau chief, in 2007:
“Annakin inadvertently gave his own name to a film character, although the spelling is slightly different, when the actor Alec Guinness suggested the name to director George Lucas for a character in the Star Wars films.
At a screening of the film, Annakin asked Lucas about it.
‘He was running his picture with Anakin Skywalker in it, and I went over to him and said, “you know, you never got permission for this.” He said, “but I dropped an ‘n’ and therefore I got away with it,”‘ Annakin said.”
This morning’s NY Times
obituaries include…
The British-born Annakin
(best known for war epics),
British cinematographer Jack Cardiff,
and Santha Rama Rau (author
of a 1960 play based on the
novel A Passage to India) —
Passage O soul to India!
Eclaircise the myths Asiatic,
the primitive fables.
Not you alone proud truths of the world,
Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
But myths and fables of eld,
Asia’s, Africa’s fables,
The far-darting beams of the spirit,
the unloos’d dreams,
The deep diving bibles and legends….
For Cardiff, cinematographer
of “A Matter of Life and Death“
and of “Black Narcissus” —
Happy Birthday
to a Dark Lady
The Roman Imperial Eagle
and, according to
C. B. DeMille in 1932 —
The above photo is courtesy of
the Cecil B. DeMille Collection
at DVD Beaver.
HARVARD CRIMSON/ ALEX R. LEVIN
Sharon Stone lectures at
Harvard’s Memorial Church
on March 14, 2005…
Related material —
Log24, Oct. 26, 2002 —
Midnight in the Garden,
starring
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