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Unlike many institutions, which are named in honor of their founders or endowers, the library was named in 1965 for the history professor. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. later said his mother was responsible for convincing the elder Schlesinger of the importance of women's history. Fittingly, the library also bears her name...
Against all odds, logic, or reason, the answer is yes. Devo is that near-extinct animal, the rock band with a message. Its name doesn't come, as you might expect, from "deviant"--Devo draws its identity from a theory called "De-evolution," the idea that homo sapiens is on its way back down that ol' Darwinian scale. As a result, the band's songs tend to be about mental deviants, physiological functions, and the detritus of modern American life...
...Four Hundred took their name from the dictum of the foppish writer Ward McAllister, who claimed in 1888 that there were only about 400 people in fashionable New York society who were at ease in a ballroom. Often tempered by a disarming folksiness. When a Yankee visitor, on meeting Chief Justice Susie Marshall Sharp of the North Carolina Supreme Court, asked how she was addressed, she replied: "Everyone just calls me Judge Susie...
Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...
...Anarchism is the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government--harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, and also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of civilized beings." --Peter Kropotkin (1842-1941), Russian anarchist...