Monday, March 23, 2026
Flashback: The Newman Prize
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Monday November 17, 2008
Limits
From the previous entry:
“If it’s a seamless whole you want,
pray to Apollo, who sets the limits
within which such a work can exist.”
— Margaret Atwood,
author of Cat’s Eye
Happy birthday
to the late
Eugene Wigner
… and a belated
Merry Christmas
to Paul Newman:
“The laws of nature permit us to foresee events on the basis of the knowledge of other events; the principles of invariance should permit us to establish new correlations between events, on the basis of the knowledge of established correlations between events. This is exactly what they do.”
— Eugene Wigner, Nobel Prize Lecture, December 12, 1963
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Thursday October 9, 2008
The Swedish Solution
(A modest proposal from
the date of Paul Newman’s death)
Paul Newman and Elke Sommer
in “The Prize” (1963,
screenplay by Ernest Lehman)
Happy Yom Kippur.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Friday October 3, 2008
The Prize
“The secret to life, and
to love, is getting started,
keeping going, and then
getting started again.”
Nobel Laureate
Seamus Heaney
at Sanders Theatre,
Harvard College,
September 30, 2008
On Elke Sommer:
“…Young Elke… studied
in the prestigious
Gymnasium School
in Erlangen….”
Erlangen Prize Lecture:
Variations on a Theme of
Plato, Goethe, and Klein
(Background:
Christmas Knot, Sept. 26,
and Hard Core, July 17-18.)