In the beginning, not very much: just the most general facts about the geometry of the landscape (which is, in any case, unlike that of most cities, beautifully organized), and the paths that (the vectors representing the states of) systems travel through them.
And this identification, whereby difficult arithmetic concepts are visualized pictorially, is something that begins not only very early in the history of man, but very early in the development of the mathematics curriculum.
Cue a Randy Newman song, one of his weakest, that begins, "Not so very long ago, the world was different, oh yes it was".
One recent warm evening, some Fire Department recruits began chanting not very nice things about the N.Y.P.D. Security guards move in when things get out of hand.
What better way to conclude the series than to go back to the very beginning – not just the first full-length narrative feature film made in this country but the first made anywhere in the world.
If she's right, homo sapiens had artistic impulses from the very beginning — not relatively late in his development.
The very next sentence begins, "Not to put to fine a point on it......
On the recent Saturday with Candice Bergen as host, the show began with a not very brilliant takeoff of a Presidential news conference, which showed the actor impersonating President Ford bumping his head on the lectern, spilling his drinking water, and repeatedly falling down.
They took Wilson/Burgess from the beginning to not very far from the end: pre-war Jesuit school, Manchester University, non-commissioned officer in a largely peaceful war (education corps), teaching in adult education and a grammar school - and then the radical break, going to Malaya in 1954, to "the Eton of the East" and to a couple of training colleges.
If we are to begin a cull not very nice people, there will be a lot of empty statue plinths and a lot of returned, or spurned, bequests.
