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"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…
"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…
"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 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…
Part I Part II Part III "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."
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) —…
For the Tin Men — The word: Shear.
The summoning of the spirit of Bertrand Russell yesterday by Peter J. Cameron at his weblog suggests a review of this weblog’s posts of Christmas Eve, December 24-25, 2013. (Recall that…
In memory of actress Sarah Marshall — "It's a big step, granted, but it's just one step." — The Twilight Zone , "Little Girl Lost." See also this morning's previous…
The archived Java rotatable hypercube of Harry J. Smith is no longer working. For an excellent JavaScript replacement, see Pete Michaud's http://petemichaud.github.io/4dhypercube/. This JavaScript version can easily be saved.