Comments on: Book Review: American Prometheus http://214studios.com/2009/02/14/book-review-american-prometheus/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hunter http://214studios.com/2009/02/14/book-review-american-prometheus/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Hunter Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:50:32 +0000 http://214studios.com/?p=177#comment-6 Sweet, this looks like a really good book. I'm adding it to my "to read" list. Glad you're back to blogging, Brock. :) - h. Sweet, this looks like a really good book. I’m adding it to my “to read” list.

Glad you’re back to blogging, Brock. :)

- h.

]]> By: Brock http://214studios.com/2009/02/14/book-review-american-prometheus/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Brock Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:52:54 +0000 http://214studios.com/?p=177#comment-5 I think I've read your posts about Dr. Atomic already (and maybe a few shared Google Reader stories, too). So I thought it was cool when the author's mentioned Dr. Atomic somewhere near the end of the book. Apparently, there was also a very successful play by a German playwright named Kipphardt titled "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer" that played all over the place. The book also talks about his fondness for Donne's sonnets, and hypothesizes that that particular one was possibly the inspiration for the name "Trinity" ("Batter my heart, three-person'd God...". Oppenheimer, though, was said to have not remembered why he chose that name, and it could also have had to do something with Hinduism with its trinity. Anyways, there was actually a live-via-satellite showing of Dr. Atomic at a theater here in C'ville (weird?) but I think I was out of town. Otherwise I would of liked to have gone. I think I’ve read your posts about Dr. Atomic already (and maybe a few shared Google Reader stories, too). So I thought it was cool when the author’s mentioned Dr. Atomic somewhere near the end of the book. Apparently, there was also a very successful play by a German playwright named Kipphardt titled “In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer” that played all over the place.

The book also talks about his fondness for Donne’s sonnets, and hypothesizes that that particular one was possibly the inspiration for the name “Trinity” (“Batter my heart, three-person’d God…”. Oppenheimer, though, was said to have not remembered why he chose that name, and it could also have had to do something with Hinduism with its trinity.

Anyways, there was actually a live-via-satellite showing of Dr. Atomic at a theater here in C’ville (weird?) but I think I was out of town. Otherwise I would of liked to have gone.

]]> By: kathleen http://214studios.com/2009/02/14/book-review-american-prometheus/comment-page-1/#comment-4 kathleen Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:24:59 +0000 http://214studios.com/?p=177#comment-4 Sounds interessant. I just sang John Adams's opera about the making of the atomic bomb at the ASO (and it was at the Met in New York this season as well) and Oppenheimer is the main character. You should check it out! I have a few blog posts about it. It really just focuses on the few days around the test at Trinity, but the libretto draws from Oppenheimer's interest in poetry. The best aria in the whole thing is a setting of a John Donne sonnet, "Batter, my heart," at the end of the first act. Anyway. Awesome. Sounds interessant. I just sang John Adams’s opera about the making of the atomic bomb at the ASO (and it was at the Met in New York this season as well) and Oppenheimer is the main character. You should check it out! I have a few blog posts about it. It really just focuses on the few days around the test at Trinity, but the libretto draws from Oppenheimer’s interest in poetry. The best aria in the whole thing is a setting of a John Donne sonnet, “Batter, my heart,” at the end of the first act. Anyway. Awesome.

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