Bibliographic record
Abstract
from the suite "A Love Supreme," or Horace Silver's "Peace," or Wayne Shorter's "Infant Eyes."Their music was a frothy blend of black consciousness and Emersonian uplift that characterized the Black Power movement as I experienced it-something wonderfully and richly aesthetic and moral.(When I was younger, I sometimes wondered if black power wasn't partly explained by the yearning of black people for a golden childhood for the race itself.)In a spirit of racial holiness, I heard Doug and Jean sing, "Those that were lost shall surely be returned"-and out of nowhere I recalled David and the Phoenix.I knew that book as well as I knew my own name, but as a child I could not, for the life of me, explain what it meant to me.But when I heard Doug and Jean's song, I realized that David and the Pheonix had taught me two contradictory yet complementary truths about childhood.First, that some things about childhood are lost beyond recovery, and we are pained rightly or wrongly by the loss.Second, and more profoundly, that most children's literature is about lost children returning home.So childhood is about the hope of recovery, how everything that is lost is returned.Haunted by loss and return, who can simply bid farewell to childhood?As Raymond Chandler wrote in another context, no one has learned a way to say goodbye to that.Haven't I given specimen clues, if no more?At any rate I have written enough to weary myself-and I will dispatch it to the printers, and cease.But how muchhow many topics, of the greatest point and cogency, I am leaving untouch'd!-Walt Whitman, "Last Saved Items" Richard Stern's most recent novel is "Paci½c Tremors" (2001).His ½fth 'orderly miscellany,' "What Is What Was," was published in 2002.This year Northwestern University Press will publish his collected stories, "Almonds to Zhoof," and reissue three of his novels, "Stitch" (1965), "Other Men's Daughters" (1973), and "Natural Shocks" (1978).Stern has been a Fellow of the American Academy since 1995.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".