Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic…
Read MoreWhen an exhibition is devoted to a theme, its paintings take a backseat, often to the detriment of the paintings…
Read MoreChapter 1: The Journey Starts I remember the day as if it were yesterday, the day I first followed Nancy half way around the world. It was July 22, 1994. I had been 59 years old for just 15 days. Now my significant other was dragging me along with her to Bali. That isn’t fair. She…
Read MorePhotograph by Rowland Williams by Samuel Jay Keyser Ed Schein, one of the foremost authorities on organizational structure—he coined the term “corporate culture”—sent me an e-mail commenting on my book, Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows: When visiting CEO’s [sic] would tell me how badly MIT was run, I would usually counter with “Well…
Read Moreby Samuel Jay Keyser There are two plaques at the entrance to the Machu Picchu sanctuary. The first reads, in part, Hiram Bingham, scientific discoverer of Machu Picchu in 1911. The association of the word ‘discoverer’ with Bingham is stretching it. This is undoubtedly why the author of the plaque thought to tone it down…
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