April 29, 2003

• Being and Time

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Being Heidegger

  Time Einstein

  
  

  Heidegger’s birthday: September 26.

  
  

  Einstein’s birthday: March 14.

  
  

  Fred Zinnemann, who won an Oscar
  for directing “From Here to Eternity“:

  
  

  

  
  

  Zinnemann’s birthday: today, April 29.

  
  

  In honor of Zinnemann, a cheerful man, who died on Einstein’s birthday in 1997, our site music today is the cheerful Gershwin tune “Our Love Is Here To Stay.”  In honor of Olivia Newton-John (granddaughter of physicist Max Born), who notably portrayed the Muse Terpsichore in “Xanadu”^◊ and who shares a September 26 birthday with Gershwin, T. S. Eliot, and Heidegger, today’s midi of “Our Love” has a special arrangement.  Ms. Newton-John might wish to commemorate the romance (“Passionate!” — Yale University Press) of Hannah Arendt, a Jewish political theorist, and Heidegger, a Catholic Nazi, by listening to “Our Love” on the acoustic bass and glockenspiel.†

  
  

   Terpsichore is the Muse of Dance.
  See also Einstein’s first paper on relativity:
  “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,”
  Annalen der Physik,

  
  

   September 26, 1905.

  
  

  ^◊ Not to be confused with an Orson Welles
  film based on the life of
  William Randolph Hearst,
  whose birthday is also today.

  
  

  † Glockenspiel means “bell-play.”
  See Metaphysics for Tina.
  
  

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