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INTERVIEW

Not the magazine. The interview that I am doing at one p.m today.

My last MIT kid for the year.

He will be the eighth I have done so far.

Almost all of them were for 'early admission'. I will know whether they made it or not on Monday.

This one is satisfied to lope along and just take the regular route. I think he will know in February.

I know that he is the last because the deadline to contact me was yesterday and the deadline for my report is January 7th. His report will go out today. I am a same day guy.

I am all up for it. Dave sent me a picture from MIT today. He works nearby and favors me with an iShot of some scene from time to time. It keeps my young blood from tiring out.

Today's photo was of the giant Alexander Calder sculpture right behind the dining hall where I worked for four years earning my keep.

I was, at first, a hash slinger and bus boy. I worked my way up to shift captain and then to head captain of the hundred or so kids who worked with me.

The photo and the reminiscence will stand me in good stead in the interview this afternoon. I will be energized and memorized to the max.

The Calder work is called "The Big Sail". It does not photograph well.

This shot is almost the same perspective that Dave's showed. The dining hall, Walker Memorial, is all but blanked out by the iron.

In real life, the piece is pretty good to look at. It does soar and sail even with its immense weight.

I like Calder's work but more the mobiles than the stabiles. He preferred calling his still works "stabiles" because they were to be seen as in flight. Or something. Calder. He was quite a guy. A regular on educational television.

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