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For some other remarks touching on religion
and politics, click on "Continued" above.

In memory of Leonard Shlain, author
of The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Alphabet logo from the website
of a religious publishing company—

A logo for Charlize Theron, who played
a goddess figure in "Hancock"—

Click images for further details.

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Update of 1 AM Saturday—

On the late Frank Moore Cross, biblical scholar—

"When you walked into his classes, you felt
you were on the frontier of knowledge in the field,"
said Peter Machinist, who studied under Dr. Cross
as an undergraduate at Harvard and now holds
the endowed professorship† there that Dr. Cross
had held until his retirement in 1992.

For religious remarks from a different Machinist,
see a post of July 24, 2012…

† Click link for a condition on the professorship that was
    apparently met by Cross, but that has perhaps not 
    been met by Machinist, a rather rabbinical figure.

A link in the previous post to the Harvard Foundation led to a screenshot
of a long-neglected Harvard web page. That page stated yesterday that
"the Harvard Foundation 2008 Artist of the Year has not yet been announced."

It turns out to be jazz artist Herbie Hancock, who was honored at
Harvard's Sanders Theatre on Saturday, March 1, 2008.

Related material from this journal—

Call and Response

For a response from the next day,
March 1, click on the professor.

"A devoted father, Smith passes on his philosophy of life to his children through chess, among other things.

'My father taught me how to play chess at seven and introduced beautiful concepts that I try to pass on to my kids. The elements and concepts of life are so perfectly illustrated on a chess board. The ability to accurately assess your position is the key to chess, which I also think is the key to life.'

He pauses, searching for an example. 'Everything you do in your life is a move. You wake up in the morning, you strap on a gun, and you walk out on the street– that's a move. You've made a move and the universe is going to respond with its move.

'Whatever move you're going to make in your life to be successful, you have to accurately access the next couple of moves– like what's going to happen if you do this? Because once you've made your move, you can't take it back. The universe is going to respond.'

Smith has just finished reading The Alchemist, by the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho: 'It says the entire world is contained in one grain of sand, and you can learn everything you need to learn about the entire universe from that one grain of sand. That is the kind of concept I'm teaching my kids.'"