Archive for the 'Obituaries' Category
Celebration?
The T-Ford, the first mass-produced car, has been on the road for 100 years. This important date in transport engineering is being celebrated right now.
http://www.ford.com/about-ford/heritage/vehicles/100-years-ford-model-t-innovation/100-years-ford-model-t-innovation-688.
Or is it? Just 100 years!? It is totally incredible how the car has managed to completely ruin our world in so short a time.
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Obituary Cyd Charisse
Today we got the news that Cyd Charisse has passed away. She was a great dancer (her career started with the Ballet Russe) and a great stage presence. For me she will always be the femme fatale in the Broadway Melody sequence in Singin’ in the Rain. She was certainly not a small woman (especially [...]
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Obituary Irena Sendlerowa
The BBC announced the death of a hero who did not want to be called a hero: Irena Sendlerowa who saved some 2500 children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto in WW II. For her story, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7395767.stm
She disliked being called a “hero” because she was ashamed she had not done more: the one child [...]
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Obituary Albert Hofmann
This week Albert Hofmann died, the Swiss chemist who synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, the drug with extreme hallucinogenic properties. What was lacking in most news coverage was the fact that Albert Hofmann also had in interest in the history of drug use and of drug induced trances in a religious context, [...]
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Obituary Humphrey Lyttelton
The death has been announced of Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician (he was a great trumpet player) and BBC radio legend, presenter of music programmes, especially the famous music quiz, “I am sorry, I haven’t a clue”. I have heard that program many times, and usually hadn’t a clue. But I enjoyed Lyttelton. What I especially loved about [...]
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