Vladimir Davydov Vladimir Davydov (December 14 [O.S. December 2] 1871 – December 27 [O.S. December 14] 1906) was the second son of Lev and Alexandra Davidov and nephew, as well as lover, of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who called him "Bob". Life[edit] From his earliest years, Davydov showed an aptitude for music and drawing, which was encouraged by his uncle.[1] After he studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg, however, Bob decided on a military career and joined the Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment.[1] He resigned his commission as a lieutenant in 1897[2] and moved to Klin, where he helped the composer's brother Modest create a museum to commemorate Tchaikovsky's life.[3] Prone to depression, Davydov turned to morphine and other drugs before he committed suicide in 1906 at the age of 34.[2] He is buried at the town's Dem'ianovo Cemetery.[1] Relationship with Tchaikovsky[edit] Dedications[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
ei: Film review: "Edward Said: The Last Interview" Filmed within three days in 2002, just one year before his death at the age of 67, Edward Said: The Last Interview is a compelling portrait of a man who was not only a strong advocate of the Palestinian cause, but an accomplished teacher, literary critic, writer and musician. After living for more than ten years with a fatal strain of leukemia, which he was diagnosed with in 1991, Said refused interviews. However, former student D.D. Confronted with the visage of a terminally ill Said, Glass does not hesitate to ask about his incurable leukemia. When asked about his memoir Out of Place (1999), Said explains that he wrote it after the death of his mother. This sense of difference carried over into his academic training at Princeton and Yale. The representation of Arabs and the “other” also intrigued Said and led him to research historical depictions starting with Mohammed in Dante’s Inferno who landed in the eighth circle of hell. Related links: BY TOPIC: Edward SaidBY TOPIC: Films
Susan Sontag: Notes On "Camp" Published in 1964. Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp." A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. Though I am speaking about sensibility only -- and about a sensibility that, among other things, converts the serious into the frivolous -- these are grave matters. Taste has no system and no proofs. To snare a sensibility in words, especially one that is alive and powerful,1 one must be tentative and nimble. These notes are for Oscar Wilde. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
The Clerk's Tale Plot[edit] The Clerk's tale is about a marquis of Saluzzo in Piedmont in Italy named Walter, a bachelor who is asked by his subjects to marry to provide an heir. He assents and decides he will marry a peasant, named Griselda. Griselda is a poor girl, used to a life of pain and labour, who promises to honour Walter's wishes in all things. Griselda's child is kidnapped After Griselda has borne him a daughter, Walter decides to test her loyalty. Finally, Walter determines one last test. Prologue[edit] One of the characters created by Chaucer is the Oxford clerk, who is a student of philosophy. The narrator claims that as a student in Italy he met Francis Petrarch at Padua from whom he heard the tale.[2] Sources[edit] The story of patient Griselda first appeared as the last chapter of Boccacio's Decameron, and it is unclear what lesson the author wanted to convey. Chaucer's intentions[edit] Given the context of the Clerk's tale, what lesson, if any, Chaucer intended remains an open guess. [edit]
Shane Harris Shane Harris is an American journalist and author. He is Senior Intelligence and National Security Correspondent for the Daily Beast.[1] He specializes in coverage of America's intelligence agencies.[2] He is author of the books The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State and @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, about the impact of cyberspace as the American military's "fifth-domain" of war. Harris is currently an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America Foundation.[3] Career[edit] Political views[edit] Awards[edit] In 2010, Harris received the 24th annual Gerald R. Books[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Robert Farris Thompson Robert Farris Thompson (born December 30, 1932, El Paso, Texas[1]) is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria for many years while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history. He is affiliated with the University of Ibadan and frequented Yoruba village communities. Thompson has studied the African arts of the diaspora in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and several Caribbean islands. Robert Farris Thompson is also an authority on hip hop culture. History at Yale[edit] In 1955, Thompson received his B.A. from Yale University. Having served as Master of Timothy Dwight College from 1978 until 2010, he was the longest serving master of a residential college at Yale. Publications and Areas of Study[edit] Awards[edit] In 2007, Thompson was given the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award, by the Congress on Research in Dance.[1] References[edit] Bibliography[edit]
Primo Levi Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. While his death was officially ruled a suicide, some evidence supports the possibility that the fall was accidental. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Levi was born in 1919 in Turin, Italy, at Corso Re Umberto 75, into a liberal Jewish family. In 1921 Anna Maria, Levi's sister was born; he was to remain close to her all his life. In September 1930 Levi entered the Massimo d'Azeglio Royal Gymnasium a year ahead of normal entrance requirements.[5] In class he was the youngest, the shortest and the cleverest, as well as being the only Jew. In July 1934 at the age of 14, he sat the exams for the Massimo d'Azeglio liceo classico, a Lyceum (sixth form) specialising in the classics, and was admitted that autumn. At the end of the summer he retook and passed his final examinations, and in October enrolled at the University of Turin to study chemistry. Chemistry[edit] - Account held at Yad Vashem. Death[edit]
Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925) is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman is one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity. Biography According to the Institute of National Remembrance, from 1945 to 1953 Bauman was a political officer in the Internal Security Corps (KBW),[1] a military unit formed to combat Ukrainian nationalist insurgents and part of the remnants of the Polish Home Army . Further Bauman worked as an informer for the Military Intelligence from 1945 to 1948. In an interview in The Guardian, Bauman confirmed that he had been a committed communist during and after World War II and had never made a secret of it. Work Early work Modernity and rationality Awards and honours
Annales School The Annales School (French pronunciation: [a'nal]) is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and monographs.[1] The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding the use of social scientific methods by historians, emphasizing social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being generally hostile to the class analysis of Marxist historiography. The school deals primarily with late medieval and early modern Europe (before the French Revolution), with little interest in later topics. It has dominated French social history and influenced historiography in Europe and Latin America. The journal[edit] Origins[edit] Precepts[edit]
Persi Diaconis Card shuffling[edit] Diaconis has coauthored several more recent papers expanding on his 1992 results and relating the problem of shuffling cards to other problems in mathematics. Among other things, they showed that the separation distance of an ordered blackjack deck (that is, aces on top, followed by 2's, followed by 3's, etc.) drops below .5 after 7 shuffles. Biography[edit] Diaconis left home at 14[10] to travel with sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon, and dropped out of high school, promising himself that he would return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read William Feller's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications. According to Martin Gardner, at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and South America. Diaconis is married to Stanford statistics professor Susan Holmes. Recognition[edit] Works[edit] Diaconis, Persi (1988). See also[edit] References[edit]