November 20, 2007

  • Requiem for Rabinowitz:

    Death on a Friday
    and the
    Magic of Numbers

    PA Lottery Friday, Nov. 16, 2007: Midday 717, Evening 419

    Above: PA Lottery on
    Friday, November 16th,
    the date of death
    for noted leftist attorney
    Victor Rabinowitz

    "Mr. Rabinowitz was a member
    of the Communist Party
    from 1942 until the
    early 1960s,
    he wrote in his memoir,
    Unrepentant Leftist (1996).
    He
    said the party
    seemed the best vehicle
    to fight for social justice."

    -- The
    New York Times    ,
     Nov.
    20, 2007

    Related material:

    7/17,
    4/19,

    and
     Friday.

    From the Harvard Crimson on Friday:

    "Robert Scanlan, a
    professor of theater
    who knew Beckett personally,
    directed the
    plays....
    He said that performing Beckett as part of
    the New College
    Theatre's inaugural series
    represents an auspicious beginning."

    From Log24 on 4/19--
    "Drama Workshop"--
    a note of gratitude
    from the Virginia Tech killer:

    "Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ,
    to inspire generations of the weak
    and the defenseless people.''

    "It's not for me. For my children,
    for my brothers and sisters...
    I did it for them.''

    -- Manifesto of Cho  

    Party on, Victor.

    For further drama, see

    The Crimson Passion.