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Arcadia was the best play ever.
The entire group of "Martians" (von Neumann, Teller, Pólya, Szillard, von Kármán tec.) were Hungarian Jews. More than half of that community perished.
I wrote an extended essay on “Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in high school… 1998-1999 period. I loved his screenplays even though I’m not a great fan of theatre in general. 88 is a ripe old age but it’s still deeply saddening.
I love that movie. Never got to see it on stage though, which I've read was superior.
I wonder how much art and science never came to be because the people who would have created it didn't escape the Nazi death machine, unlike Stoppard. The entire group of "Martians" (von Neumann, Teller, Pólya, Szillard, von Kármán tec.) were Hungarian Jews. More than half of that community perished.
For what it's worth, a lot of people think the Nazis undermined their own war machine by persecuting Jewish scientists.
I wonder how much art and science never came to be because the people who would have created it didn't escape the Nazi death machine, unlike Stoppard. The entire group of "Martians" (von Neumann, Teller, Pólya, Szillard, von Kármán tec.) were Hungarian Jews. More than half of that community perished.
There are many people who never make it because they grow up under the wrong regime or in a place where no one will publish or publicise them. For what it's worth, a lot of people think the Nazis undermined their own war machine by persecuting Jewish scientists.
People don't even realize that as late as 100 years ago, Americans would travel to Germany for first-class university education. Harvard was good for networking and decent for overall education, but top notch science was done in places like Heidelberg.
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There are many people who never make it because they grow up under the wrong regime or in a place where no one will publish or publicise them. For what it's worth, a lot of people think the Nazis undermined their own war machine by persecuting Jewish scientists.
They absolutely did, and German science never recovered its former dominant position after Hitler. People don't even realize that as late as 100 years ago, Americans would travel to Germany for first-class university education. Harvard was good for networking and decent for overall education, but top notch science was done in places like Heidelberg.
Wrote a paper on "Shakespeare in Love" (and the original Shakespeare) for lit in highschool. My paper wasn't any good. Really in retrospect or at the time. How he had reinvented it, reinvigorated it. (TIL about banished Rama and Sita from the Bhagavad Gita.) But then I realized it would just be easier to be a critic. Anyways, truly when I lucked into big time screenwriting gigs it was in part because of the time I ha…