SHERIDAN’S THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL PART 2
WITHIN THE FIRST few lines of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the play’s satirical intent is evident: Lady Sneerwell says to her accomplice, “Did you circulate the … Continue reading
SHERIDAN’S THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL PART 1
IF EVER THERE WERE a theatrical title sounding timely, it would be Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal. Even its character names have resonance today, among them Sir Benjamin … Continue reading
THE VERY LARGE AND THE VERY SMALL
AT FIRST GLANCE, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 should be large enough. And, at the other extreme, 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 would seem small indeed. Nope. Within a couple of decades, global data storage may exceed 1024, … Continue reading
ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER GHOST
THE FIRST SILVER GHOST, Rolls-Royce chassis no. 60551, wasn’t initially an official model name. The moniker “Silver Ghost” was given to a particular 1907 Rolls-Royce, back when “motors,” as automobiles … Continue reading
WHAT’S THAT IN OLD ENGLISH? PART 2
YESTERDAY IN “What’s That in Old English Part 1,” we concluded with edhwierfe!, the Old English verb “to return” in its imperative singular case. Given that you have returned, today … Continue reading
WHAT’S THAT IN OLD ENGLISH? PART 1
HERE ARE some tidbits about Old English, OE, for short, gleaned from a recent exhibition at the British Museum, a BBC article reviewing this exhibition, and my usual Internet sleuthing. … Continue reading
A WHITE HOUSE CANTATA—RECONSTRUCTED FROM 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
LEONARD BERNSTEIN and Alan Jay Lerner once had an immense Broadway flop. Bernstein, the composer of West Side Story, 1957. And Lerner, the lyricist who brought us “I Could Have … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR
FACTORIES ARE wondrous places. Bits and pieces enter one end and, often in seconds, spiffy new products come out the other. Somewhere in between, workers and machines perform their magic. … Continue reading
AMERICAN DESIGN—A TIME CAPSULE
NOW THAT WE’RE well into the 21st century, several design books on my shelves have taken on the aura of time capsules. One in particular, The Index of American Design, … Continue reading
HOW NOT TO HAVE A PRESS JUNKET PART 2
PLANNING AND INAUGURATION OF India’s Vande Bharat Express had complexities galore, more than enough to warrant yesterday’s SimanaitisSays. Today in Part 2, there are energy concerns, both in propulsion and … Continue reading
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