Posts by Alfred Brophy

Let It Be is presented as renaissance madrigal. And two others and 1960s and 1970s are presented in similar fashion: Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees. And Simon and Garfunkel's…

In 1968 the Whole Earth Catalog reports the HP 9100A calculator was priced at $4900. And the calculator was 40 lbs. Wow.

I am in the minority -- I didn't think that Ken Burns' Revolutionary War was not good. And I really regret this, because Ken Burns is really fantastic. American Revolutionary…

I did not realize that Dick Cheney's wife had a Ph.D. Her title was "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry." And her university,…

John Fabian Witt's latest Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Charles Garland's grandfather was extraordinarily wealthy. Garland's optimism was well rewarded. "In a…

W.H. Auden's authored this syllabus at the University of Michigan. I do not think this one is reasonable.  2 credits; 6000 pages. I don't think so. Final examination?

Was this Revolutionary War hero America’s first openly gay general? Obviously. I thought that was clear.

The second tier (51-100) is correlated with professor ranking and the Washington and Lee Law Library (citations) is .53.   That is not as strong as the first tier  (1-50) and…