Tag: March 26-29 2006
Note: Carmichael's reference is to A. Emch, "Triple and multiple systems, their geometric configurations and groups," Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1929), 25–42. "There is such a thing…
Darkness at Noon, continued It turns out that Medawar (see previous entry) also wrote a deeply hostile review of Koestler’s The Act of Creation. (See Pluto’s Republic.) There…
A Prince of Darkness “What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a…
A Living Church A skeptic’s remark: “…the mind is an amazing thing and it can create patterns and interconnections among things all day if you let it, regardless…
Rhinestone Cowboy By GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music… died Saturday. He…
‘Nauts (continued from Life of the Party, March 24) Exhibit A — From (presumably) a Princeton student (see Activity, March 24): Exhibit B — From today’s Sunday comics:…
Midnight in the Garden continued Questions posed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times of Jan. 13, 2006: “‘What is art?’ may be the art world’s most…