December 29, 1895 is the birth date of Busby Berkeley. Berkeley was a choreographer whose inventive camera angles, among other innovations, secured him a chapter in cinema history. You have seen his chorus lines and splashy dance numbers in movies from the 30s and 40s. I am still trying to figure out though, exactly how he managed the cats in "Ziegfield Girls," a 1941 movie. At a climactic point all the beautiful dancers emerge sitting from giant clamshells. They are all holding white cats. Brave, creative, choreographer Bushby Berkely. I gotta assume the cats were declawed, maybe drugged. But I don't know that. How did he choreograph those cats?
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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