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CMT Awards Night

A meditation, while watching the Country Music Television CMT Awards, on today's evening NY lottery number 469. For Reese  Witherspoon* and Dionysus, not Apollo— A Funny Thing Happened…

Songs and Fingerplays

…To Pay Paul From Princeton Public Library (65 Witherspoon St., on map above)— Songs and Fingerplays— Fingerplay— See this morning's 10:30 AM post. Song— Paul Robeson sings "Summertime."…

… And Rosetta Stone

Halle Berry as Rosetta Stone

For Saint Peter

… and Arthur Koestler The theme of the January 2010 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society was “Mathematics and the Arts.”   Related material:  …

Hellgate Joke (continued*)

The New Yorker 's review of The Great Escape  (Simon & Schuster, $27), by Kati Marton— "Marton, who fled Hungary as a child in 1957, illuminates Budapest's vertiginous…

A Look Back

Apollo (not Orpheus) versus Robert Kaplow, author of The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun—