Balliett

Some 50 years ago the New Yorker's jazz critic, Whitney Balliett, described the best of the music he was listening to as "the sound of surprise."

Hear It, Feel It Eric Felten 2010

Dow Balliett, an Atlantic City housewife who wrote the book The Philosophy of Numbers in 1908.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

This gives me a name vibration of 6, which means that I should, according to Balliett, “always be dressed with care and precision; be fond of dainty effects and colors, lifting your especial colors of orange, scarlet and heliotrope into their lighter shades, yet always keeping their true tones.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Dow Balliett, an Atlantic City housewife who wrote the book The Philosophy of Numbers in 1908.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Bebop had a Modernist aesthetic but a Romantic sensibility, at least inasmuch as it valued direct expression over balance, control, predictability -- Whitney Balliett called his collection of New Yorker jazz reviews "The Sound of Surprise" in acknowledgment of this -- and though Peterson could dazzle, he never surprised.

Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Dow Balliett, an Atlantic City housewife who wrote the book The Philosophy of Numbers in 1908.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

This gives me a name vibration of 6, which means that I should, according to Balliett, “always be dressed with care and precision; be fond of dainty effects and colors, lifting your especial colors of orange, scarlet and heliotrope into their lighter shades, yet always keeping their true tones.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

This gives me a name vibration of 6, which means that I should, according to Balliett, “always be dressed with care and precision; be fond of dainty effects and colors, lifting your especial colors of orange, scarlet and heliotrope into their lighter shades, yet always keeping their true tones.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Amy Balliett and several internet networking sites and companies, within days of Prop. 8's hateful passage, Join the Impact was born.

Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008

Balliett and Witte sent out mass e-mails, text messages and blog posts to direct people to the site.

Gay Rights 2.0 2008