tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3836049633514177789..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: CROWD-SOURCINGRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-35868647515742038022013-11-27T10:37:02.369-05:002013-11-27T10:37:02.369-05:00When we had the dinner, their attention was totall...When we had the dinner, their attention was totally focussed on their little son, who was at that point crawling about. Marx was a rather urbane and jovial type, not intense. Carol is much more focussed on philosophical issues. Yes, she did indeed write a book on Marx, among other things.<br /><br />Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-90010337530959546202013-11-27T08:55:26.922-05:002013-11-27T08:55:26.922-05:00Carol Gould? Did she write a book on Marx? Convers...Carol Gould? Did she write a book on Marx? Conversations around their breakfast table must have been high powered. What sorts of things interested them? Andrew Lionel Blaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976034095806583387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-62802423728701512462013-11-26T17:40:10.503-05:002013-11-26T17:40:10.503-05:00I think she and Julia Child really launched a cert...I think she and Julia Child really launched a certain kind of PBS show. Watching the two of them walk into a party, as I once did, was a hoot. He was so fat and sloppy and scraggly, and she was so svelte and beautiful and tall. For a long time, I jyst assumed that he went to the old University of Chicago. he was a typical Hyde Park type. But Wikipedia says he actually went to the University of Illinois. But he was a fixture at MIT for a long time. I never actually met Maggie.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-726594748750603872013-11-26T16:10:18.419-05:002013-11-26T16:10:18.419-05:00Professor Wolff --
I remember, as a young child, ...Professor Wolff --<br /><br />I remember, as a young child, watching Maggie Lettvin's exercise program on WGBH TV. This was before the value of exercise and physical fitness became widely known -- before Jane Fonda's series of popular workout videos. She was ahead of her time.<br /><br />-- JimJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00826600172627425879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-88326360626924653722013-11-26T14:41:27.397-05:002013-11-26T14:41:27.397-05:00Andrew, thank you for the memory. No, I have not,...Andrew, thank you for the memory. No, I have not, but Susie and I once had a splendid dinner at a one-start restaurant on the Right Bank with Marx and his wife Carol Gould. Ah, those were the days.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-66951017459976652092013-11-26T13:26:48.561-05:002013-11-26T13:26:48.561-05:00I loved the Boston Colloquium. When I was an under...I loved the Boston Colloquium. When I was an undergraduate at SMU, Southeastern Massachusetts University, in North Dartmouth, I took a course in the philosophy of science, and the professor, Kalikow, I think, mentioned it. She posted the schedule and I found something that I thought was interesting. It was an opportunity to hitchhike to Boston and check it out. Your memory of the audience is spot on. I've to been to several talks and there was never an occasion on which some audience member didn't stand up knowing some unbelievably arcane piece of information like the difference between the 3rd and 7th editions of a 1930s Russian biology textbook. Wartofsky and Cohen were an amazing team. By the way, have you ever read Wartofsky's book on Feuerbach? <br /><br />Andrew Lionel Blaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976034095806583387noreply@blogger.com