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“Paradigm Talent Agency are supporting with casting. Emperor is described as a look at a debauched world of wealth, sex, manipulation and treason.” — The Hollywood Reporter : “Cannes:…
The Decline and Fall of Augustus Gibbons?
From this morning’s post: “Beyond Noplace, far into wide Nowhere” — John Hollander Vide Le Guin Geometry.
From Monday in this journal — Related news this morning — Anne Hollander, Scholar of Style, Dies at 83 By William Yardley in The New York Times , 10:26 PM…
A search for “Dark Fields of the Republic,” an F. Scott Fitzgerald phrase mentioned in the previous post, yields a book by that title. “When does a life…
Roger Cooke in The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course (2nd ed., Wiley-Interscience, 2005)— “Like all numbers, the number four is bound to occur in many contexts.” —…
Roger Cooke in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society , April 2010 — “Life on the Mathematical Frontier: Legendary Figures and Their Adventures“ “In most cases involving the modern…
An essay linked to here on the date of Kuhn’s death discussed the film “Good Will Hunting”: “You can be sure that when an experienced movie director like Gus…
The date of a Vanity Fair post on Hugh Jackman— Sunday, June 8, 2014— suggests a review of the following quotation from this journal on that date — Zen…