Word: wittgensteins
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...course, that is putting a high-minded gloss on the behavior, as if the auditorium of one's mind were always resounding to symposiums on Wittgenstein or on human rights in Myanmar. Caught me talking to myself? Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage! Thomas Jefferson dines alone! Shakespeare's soliloquies elevated talking to oneself to the highest art; on the other hand, Hamlet may not have been traveling with a full seabag either...
...Wellesley, Prentiss says she cultivated a taste for existentialist philosophy and for Wittgenstein. In the meantime, she started working in the labs at MIT as an undergraduate through an exchange program at Wellesley. She continued at MIT for graduate school. There, she carried out the first project to observe channeling in optical standing waves--channeling the path of atoms along the nodes of laser standing waves. Prentiss received her Ph.D. from...
...remember as a freshman looking at the course catalog," says Joseph D. Halpern '67. "I was reading about a class on the early philosophy of Wittgenstein. I remember thinking who was Wittgenstein and why does he have any early or late philosophies?.... There was a lot of choice...
Charles occasionally wrote letters to his son and sent books by Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. "The letters seemed strange and alienating," recalls Lachenmeyer, then a student at the University of Chicago. "Now I've learned what a remarkable exercise in self-control they were." Because during this period his father's illness was clearly getting worse. When Lachenmeyer incautiously asked about his schizophrenia in a 1989 letter, Charles responded by calling him "an arrogant little s___ who needs to have his behind warmed...
...England, the author's relatively minor difficulties, mental, dental and love-related, make the front page of Vogue magazine. At Oxford University, (where every other boy has a leather jacket and a pocket Wittgenstein, where every other haircut resemble's Bono's on the 1983 cover of the "War" album, and everyone pretends to scoff at success) Amis is a normal topic of discussion. I couldn't find a single person at Harvard who had even heard...