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The Learning Network

"When will they ever learn?" — Rhetorical question by the late Pete Seeger NY Times  logo for its Learning Network  feature — Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading — The…

Blackboard Jungle

Continues… Other Times content — ("O Me!") — Other non -Times content — ("O Life!") — The author of the above pairing has suggested a topic she seems ill-prepared to discuss — poetry and psychosis….

Test

From Fritz Leiber's 1959 sci-fi classic "Damnation Morning" — She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement that looked by quick turns to me like a knife, a…

Step

(Continued from Saturday) Huizenga reportedly died on Saturday.

Nobel Note

"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented ​in the scheme of things." — To Ride Pegasus ,      by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47) From a post…

An Early Facebook

"Where have all the flowers gone?" — Rhetorical question by Pete Seeger "It was 1964, a critical juncture in Radcliffe's history." — Elaine DeLott Baker in an historical account   of…

In Memory of Pete Seeger

"Chop Wood, Carry Water" — title of a book by Rick Fields, who was reportedly expelled from Harvard in 1964. "From California to the New York island" — words of a…

Seeger Obits

Seeger reportedly died yesterday — Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Source: The Porterville (California) Recorder Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014, 11:25 pm (CA time) Associated Press  Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour…

Remembrance

Part I Part II Part III "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."

Blazing Bride's Chair

A sequel to last night's link Shear — Some dead poet's words — The "bride's chair" is the figure illustrating Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem (click image to enlarge) —…