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Coincidentally, I'd just come across a 1986 book called The Alphabet Effect, by Robert K. Logan, a Toronto academic who is interested in the educational applications of the computer. It's mentioned on the flyleaf that Professor Logan once collaborated with Marshall McLuhan. According to Logan, a breakthrough came with the much-maligned video games. Most children tire of them quickly and transfer their interest to computers, which offer similar attractions - i.e., instant response and feedback and the ability to interact (that is, converse) with the system and dictate what's on the screen. \"Rather than becoming passive consumers of video images,\" Logan concludes, \"children are able to control the video environment, at first by responding to preprogrammed games and then by creating their own images and games by programming the computer themselves.\"

Her husband, Thomas A. Stadelmann, died in 1995. Her first husband, Robert K. Logan, died in 1951. She leaves two sons, Robert K. Logan of Tucson, Ariz., and Richard C. Logan of Milton; two daughters, Betty A. Belaska of Marlboro and Peggy M. Bennett of Bristol, N.H.; a sister, Esther M. Clancy of Hudson; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. She was born in Marlboro, daughter of Edward M. and Marie A.

Most science textbooks display little trace of the author's personality and beliefs. Most storytellers include aspects of themselves in their tales.

Although Mr. [Alan Schneider] displayed a catholicity of taste over the years -among his early efforts were stagings of such plays as Thornton Wilder's ''Skin of Our Teeth,'' Robert Anderson's ''All Summer Long'' and Clifford Odets's ''Country Girl'' - he would become best known for his more experimental work, and in one of the few passages of self-assessment in this volume he makes it clear where his affinities lay. ''I am the only American theater director who ever went from the avant-garde to the Old Guard without having passed through the Establishment,'' he writes. ''I have always favored the poetic over the prosaic, siding with instinct over reason, swayed by the power of symbols, images, metaphors, all of the substances lurking behind the closed eyelids of the mind. To me, these are more faithful signs of essential truths than all those glossy photographs that seek to mirror our external world. I've always preferred Chekhov to Ibsen, Tennessee Williams to Arthur Miller, and Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy; but [Samuel Beckett]'s metaphors reach deepest into my subconscious self.'' Having been signed up to direct the first American production of ''Waiting for Godot'' in 1955, Mr. Schneider spends a week looking for the elusive writer in Paris and finally succeeds in trying to get Mr. Beckett to answer his questions about the play. ''According to him,'' Mr. Schneider writes, ''Godot had 'no meaning' and 'no symbolism.' There was no 'general point of view involved,' but it was certainly 'not existentialist.' Nothing in it meant anything other than what it was on the surface. 'It's just about two people who are like that.' That was all he would say.''

[...]while Pennsylvania Avenue is fenced off in preparation for president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Friday, the World Series champions will be ushered inside Monday afternoon for the final sports celebration of the Obama era, joining the Blackhawks as the only Chicago teams to be feted by Obama during his eight years in the White House. Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts, a prominent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in her failed presidential bid, was the key to getting the deal done after Obama called manager Cubs manager Joe Maddon and invited the team after they beat the Indians in Game 7 of the World Series.