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The Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein's duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1972/73 academic year at Harvard University , and is therefore often referred to as the Norton Lectures .
But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question". [1] A 1970 Dear Abby column in The Milwaukee Sentinel said: "There is no such thing as a stupid question if it's sincere. Better to ask and risk appearing stupid than to continue on your ignorant way and make a stupid mistake.
The Unanswered Question is a musical work by American composer Charles Ives. Originally paired with Central Park in the Dark as Two Contemplations in 1908, [a] The Unanswered Question was revised by Ives in 1930–1935. As with many of Ives' works, it was largely unknown until much later in his life, and was not performed until 1946.
The Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta, MN 63 [9] and 72 [10] contains a list of ten unanswered questions about certain views (ditthi): The world is eternal. The world is not eternal. The world is (spatially) infinite. The world is not (spatially) infinite. The being imbued with a life force is identical with the body.
A question related to the problem of personal identity is Benj Hellie's vertiginous question. The vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose experiences are live?
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Patrick had tagged some variation of his name or initials on the book’s surfaces with a ballpoint pen, and its pages were full of highlighting and bristling with Post-its. Back in the wood-paneled living room of their Lexington, Kentucky, home that afternoon, Patrick and his parents began an impromptu family meeting about what to do next.
The first movement of Ivesiana is set to Central Park in the Dark, danced by a principal couple and an all-female corps de ballet. [6] In his book Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, the choreographer wrote, "As the names Ives gave to his music so vividly describe them, I would hope that they also tell what the dance might be about... which is a meeting between a girl who is ...