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 The Gerbert Report Rhymes with the Colbert Report, but not quite as funny. Who was Gerbert - Born as Gerbert d'Aurillac, in France in 946, in a time before anyone had a last name. As a teenager, he went to Spain for his education. He heard that only the Arabs had the key to mathematics - the numbers we use today - so he snuck out at night to learn from these scholars. Then he took modern math back to the rest of Europe. Gerbert was a mathematician, astronomer, inventor and musician, and he led an adventurous life political intrigue and technological development. As if to celebrate his life, in 999 they made him the Pope. What can he do now for us? Report on seemingly extraneous, occasionally funny, sometimes strange pieces of news and information. * Last month, I asked if anyone recognized the codename "Vigorous." It turns out the word is "Vigorate," and the name of someone sending emails to 12 people in the new energy movement. Vigorate speaks with authority, but not in the same style as "Anonymous" in the "Dirty Tricks" posting in the center column…part of the adventure is trying to accurately name the players. Fiction is out, I favor true mystery.
Comments on Film, Theater, Music, and Books Movies 
Frederic DeLis The screenplay for "Blue Group" (the life of Frederic DeLis) is complete. Open the article in the center column for a preview.
Books
Nuclear Express- A Book Review for Our Time The James Boys- A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers by Richard Liebmann-Smith, Random House Recent Articles by Charlotte Wilson |
Russian Symbolism The work of Boris Tyomkin continues the Russian Symbolist quest for expressing potent archetypes, to evoke a timeless emotional response. In his work, imagery serves to reveal and invoke yearnings accessible only below the threshold language. Tyomkin interweaves the powerful Symbolist traditions of his homeland, positioned in contemporary emotional contexts and settings. The use of symbols in art goes back to Neolithic times and continues through all art styles, to this day. In the religion-based feudalism of the Middle Ages, where most people were illiterate, Art was the teacher and communicator. Symbols were used as a kind of shorthand, easily understood by the populace. As European civilization moved out of feudalism and into a more educated and mercantile world, wealthy upper and middle class patrons created a market for private Art. In the 19th century, the industrial age was concerned with realism and empiricism which was reflected in their Art, but it was the advent of photography, that encouraged artists to search for different ways to go beyond "perfect" realism. Artists yearned for broader, deeper meanings; they linked sources from poetry, legend, drama and music into their artistic expressions, and the Symbolist movement was born. |
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