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Announcing our first Movie Night 2/27/2021

The Set-Up has been chosen for several reasons: it is a superb boxing movie with a compelling story line, beautifully directed, filmed and edited, and acted.  Ryan provides a Dartmouth and boxing connection.  It is also short:  only 1 hour and 12 minutes.  Further, it is one of the few movies to observe the unity of time.  The movie opens on a street clock and ends on the same clock 72 minutes later.  (Another movie that follows a strict unity of time and a strict unities of place and action is Hitchcock’s Rope which was filmed so as to appear to be a single continuous shot.  High Noon with

Casual Conversation December 12th, 2021 with Tim Means

Something new for our Casual Conversations: two conversations linked by subject matter.  Both concern mining and mines.  The first, which is with Tim Means, is about mining: how it is done, how it is regulated, and the human and legal institutional flaws that can jeopardize achievement of miners’ safety which is the intended regulatory objective. (The second on January 9 will feature David Abbott talking about his work for the

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