Life Lessons

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Fiordiligi at the Ed […]

Nichelle Nichols had already decided to leave. The letter was written. The conversation with the producers was coming. After one season on Star Trek, she was ready to walk away from the role of Lieutenant Uhura and return to the stage, where she hoped the work would feel more alive, more serious, and more worthy of what she knew she could do.

Agnes de Mille should have been celebrating. After years of working in relative obscurity, she had finally created something the world could not ignore. The musical was Oklahoma!, and it became a sensation almost immediately. Audiences loved it. Critics noticed it. The production would go on to run for thousands of performances and become one of the most successful shows of its time.

Joseph met Marina in […]

Louis Agassiz placed a fish on the table and said almost nothing. The student looked at it and quickly recognized the specimen. It was only a sunfish. Nothing rare. Nothing dramatic. Nothing that seemed worthy of deep investigation.

The first thing I noticed at the Picasso exhibition was not a painting. It was the number.