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79 · Schtitt & Mario

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Nick Bolletieri

a real tennis coach

epaulets

military shoulder decorations on clothing

a philosopher instead of a king

Although Plato stresses, in Republic, that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

F.R.G.

Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)

leptosomatic

having a slender, frail build

pedagogical

having to do with teaching

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post-prandial

following a meal

calliopsis

another name for Plains correopsis

quincunx

the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)

briers' yeasty musk

the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches

bradykinetic

describing abnormally slow movement

plosivity

referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.

Euclid

Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

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tympana

Plural for the Latin tympanum, i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST

The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

discursive

rambling in speech

wonk

A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

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simpatico

in agreement

Hopman

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Endnote 34

Mandelbrotian

Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

post-Gödelian

coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher

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either [Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry] or Nell Hopman]

van der Meer

probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics

fractal

A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

aleatory

of or pertaining to accidental causes

Lieber Gott nein

German: My God, no

Gymanasium

the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school

appetitive will

that part of the will that desires physical things

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palestra

an ancient Greek school of wrestling

experialist

like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste

Verstiegenheit

literally German for "eccentricity"

Platz

German: a public square

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