It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, November 22, 2021

Exactly Fifty-Eight Years Ago ... A Prequel To Previous Page

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in Flushing Meadows
was in the third month
of its second year
of existence 

Immediately after lunch,
all of its students
were gathered in
the school gymnasium
for a pep rally

It was a Friday
and that night
our basketball team
was playing
its first inter-scholastic game
 
It was against Archbishop Molloy,
another Diocesan school

Everyone cheered maddeningly
as the players were introduced
 
Being loud and crazy
—under those circumstances—
was not discouraged
 
The Vice-Principal
was the moderator
but, after an hour,
the Principal
—Brother Cyr—
walked in somberly,
whispered something 
to the moderator
 
Then all the students,
obediently and unquestioningly,
returned to their classrooms
 
But we were still obsessed
with our basketball team
 
our homeroom teacher,
had written 
on the chalkboard:
KENNEDY- 1963
LINCOLN-1865
 
I thought that was
one hell of a
basketball score
 
Seconds later,
The Principal was on
the intercom
announcing the assassination
of President Kennedy
 
We were then dismissed
from school, one hour
prematurely
 
But oddly enough,
the basketball game
was not cancelled
 
We lost the game 
to Archbishop Molloy
but we lost
so much more than that
on November 22, 1963 
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