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THE GREAT FRICATIVE SHIFT, GRIMM’S LAW, AND WIFE DOTTIE’S KIN PART 1
I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING or other in Stephen Fry’s Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined, when I came upon the Appendices of this marvelous book. In its “Feet and Toes” entry, Fry writes, “Like us the...
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THE GREAT FRICATIVE SHIFT, GRIMM’S LAW, AND WIFE DOTTIE’S KIN PART 2
TODAY WE PICK UP with Part 2, bringing the Brothers Grimm into the tale of Friedrich von Schlegel’s philology (not to say his other activities with Felix Mendelssohn’s auntie). The brothers,...
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A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF REDUCING CO2
A RECENT CBS NEWS ITEM shares fascinating information about reducing global CO2 emissions. Ben Tracy and Analisa Novak give details January 16, 2023, in “Cement Industry Accounts for About 8% of CO2...
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THERE WERE SPRITES IN OUR GARAGES PART 1
LIKE THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES that resided in Holmes literary agent Arthur Conan Doyle’s garden, for awhile Sprites resided in our driveways and garages. In fact, I know of one that still does. These...
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THERE WERE SPRITES IN OUR GARAGES PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, tidbits were gleaned from R&T’s road test of the all-new 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite. Today in Part 2 comments are shared by a pal who managed to buy the same Sprite Mk I...
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LRB LETTERS—A READER’S PLEASURE
LETTERS TO THE LONDON REVIEW of Books are no less insightful and erudite than the editorial matter of this wonderfully British publication. Here are tidbits gleaned from LRB, January 19, 2023. I’m...
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VINTAGE CAR ART
INTRODUCING VINTAGE CAR ART in R&T August 1958, the magazine observed, “To the dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast for the marque Aston Martin, no other make is even worthy of a second glance. The famed...
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VICTORIAN THOUGHT AND SCIENCE
HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US To The Moon is Iwan Rhys Morus’s new book reviewed in Science, January 20, 2023. Both the book and its review by Bernard Lightman are thought-provoking. How The Victorians...
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THE POWER OF WORDS AND CLAY PART 1
A NEAT POSTCARD ANNOUNCES the 78th Scripps College Ceramic Annual at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in Claremont, California. Bless their hearts; the Gallery has me on its mailing since 2016...
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THE POWER OF WORDS AND CLAY PART 2
AN INVITATION TO THE 78th Scripps College Ceramic Annual got me interested in the article “Speaking Volumes: Pottery and Word,” by ceramicist Paul Mathieu. Today in Part 2, Mathieu discusses the roles...
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