Aldo D. Medina
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[Speeches I Like]
"What will your letter say?" Commencement address by the President of the Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2022
[Thinkers]
"the hub of the solar system..." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, on describing Boston
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." -Kant
Alan Hirschman
interesting New England publications: The Boston Green Bag (1889-1914); the Naragansett Dawn (c. 1930s); the Charles Eliot Five-Foot Shelf (c. 1900s)
[Film]
favorite films released in 1950: Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve
"you, being from New York and all, might have the impression that law is practiced with a certain degree of informality down here...
... It isn't." -a non-Yankee, Yale JD, 1992
[Literature]
best sci-fi short stories: Flowers for Algernon (Keyes), The Last Question (Asimov), and The Time Machine (Wells)
Don DeDillo on Earthrise [link]
[The Arts]
"all good Americans should live in England." - British art critic John Ruskin
NYC: Morgan Library and Museum
[LINK] to 2022 review of Jed Perl's latest book in the NYT | interestingly, Perl flies in the face of the apparent return to art as social criticism
[Exhibitions]
Water Memories @The Met
Edward Hopper @ Whitney
Diego Rivera @ SFMoMA
The Jewish Deli @ NY HIstorical Society
[Potpurri]
horton hears a hoosier - jeopardy category, 2011-04-06
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Copp's Hill Cemetery
[Fellowship Rejections]
Obama Foundation, 2022
Fulbright Foundation, 2022
Coca-Cola Foundation, 2020
Telluride Association, 2019
[Withdrawn]
United States Presidential Scholars Program, 2020
National Merit Scholarship Program, 2019