October 21, 2023  A historic midcentury modern Oakland home, once owned by jazz legend Dave Brubeck, is now on the market for $3 million.  Located at 6630 Heartwood Drive, this house, popularly called the "tree house," was designed by renowned "Case Study House" architect Beverley D. Thorne in 1954.  This unique design incorporates steel framing, resulting in a residence appearing to hover 16 feet above the ground, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.  Not only known for its architectural prowess, the house is also renowned for its former owner, jazz icon Dave Brubeck.  Within these walls, Brubeck composed hits such as "Take Five" and practiced with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.  Thorne designed the living space to incorporate the surroundings, with a rock outcrop extending through the center of the home and panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay.  Eileen Vargas  See graphics at https://hoodline.com/2023/10/jazz-legend-dave-brubecks-iconic-3m-oakland-tree-house-hits-the-market/  

Here’s an adventure!  What awaits 
Beyond these closed, mysterious gates? 
Whom shall I meet, where shall I go? 
Beyond the lovely land I know? 
Above the sky, across the sea? 
What shall I learn and feel and be? 

Open, strange doors, to good or ill! 
I hold my breath a moment still 
Before the magic of your look. 
What shall you do to me, O book?   https://owlishbooks.com/2018/02/09/poetry-adventure-anonymous/   

The word pragmatism is derived from the Greek pragma (“action,” or “affair”). The Greek historian Polybius (died 118 BCE) called his writings “pragmatic,” meaning thereby that they were intended to be instructive and useful to his readers.  Achieving results, “getting things done” in business and public affairs, is often said to be “pragmatic.”  There is a harsher and more brutal connotation of the term in which any exercise of power in the successful pursuit of practical and specific objectives is called “pragmatic.”  Sandra B. Rosenthal and H.S. Thayer  https://www.britannica.com/topic/pragmatism-philosophy/History-of-pragmatism   

A kerchief (from the Old French couvrechief, "cover head"), also known as a bandana, bandanna is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head, face or neck for protective or decorative purposes.  The popularity of head kerchiefs may vary by culture or religion, often being used as a Christian headcovering by women of the Anabaptist, Eastern Orthodox, and Plymouth Brethren denominations, as well as by some Orthodox Jewish and Muslim women.  The neckerchief  and handkerchief are related items.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerchief 

"In like Flynn" is a slang phrase meaning "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired."  Etymologist Eric Partridge presents evidence that it refers to Edward J. Flynn (most prominent c. 1922-1943), a New York City political boss who became a campaign manager for the Democratic party during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency.  Boss Flynn's "Democratic Party machine exercised absolute political control over the Bronx . . . The candidates he backed were almost automatically 'in'."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_like_Flynn   

In Like Flint is a 1967 American spy fi comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas, the sequel to the parody spy film Our Man Flint (1966).  It posits an international feminist conspiracy to depose the ruling American patriarchy with a feminist matriarchy.  To achieve and establish this plan, they kidnap and replace the U.S. President, discredit the head of the Z.O.W.I.E. intelligence agency, and commandeer a nuclear-armed space platform, all directed from Fabulous Face, a women's beauty farm in the Virgin Islands.  Circumstances compel ex-secret agent Derek Flint to help his ex-boss, and so uncover the conspiracy.  James Coburn and Lee J. Cobb reprise their roles as Derek Flint and spy chief Lloyd C. Cramden, Flint's ex-boss, respectively.  Jerry Goldsmith, who wrote the score for Our Man Flint, also returns.  The ad campaign features poster artwork by Bob Peak.  The title is a play on the phrase "in like Flynn."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Like_Flint   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2740  November 3, 2023