June 16, 2007

  • A Manhattan Project:

    Obituaries in the News

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: June 16, 2007,
    in The New York Times

    Filed at 7:10 a.m. ET

    Samuel Isaac Weissman

    ST.
    LOUIS (AP) -- Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped
    develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has
    died. He was 94.

    Weissman died Tuesday [June 12]....

    From Log24
     on Tuesday,
    June 12:

    Sky Fish

    Sky Fish - A Logo for Philip K. Dick

    Illustration from
    LOGOS
    (May 17, 2007)

    From today's
    New York Times    :

    The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix07/070616-Twist.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    Photo by Richard Termine

    Scene from "Behind the Lid"

    (See the Log24 entries from
    June 12, the date of
    Weissman's death.)

    From Ben Brantley's
    review     of "Behind the Lid,"
    a quote from the author:

    "Her life, her voice says,
    was devoted to discovering
    'the inside on the outside,
      the outside on the inside.'"

    Related material:

    Julie Taymor--

    "They did it from
    the inside to the outside.
    And from the outside to
    the in.
    And that profoundly
    moved me then. It was...
    it was the most
    important thing
    that I ever experienced."

    Wallace Stevens--

    Professor Eucalyptus said,
    "The search/ For reality
    is as momentous as/
     
    The search for God."
    It is the philosopher's search/
     
    For an interior made exterior/
     
    And the poet's search
    for the same exterior
    made/ Interior....