I suppose we could also pressure theater critics to stop
using the word "bomb" to describe a flop. Lighten up, lady -- my
dictionary defines "trinity" as "a group of three; a triad" --
should we remove it from our language because it was once used in
a certain way?
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Jane Evans wrote:
> I just attended a meeting at the West Group training center here in
> San Francisco, where they announced their new combination (Premise,
> Folio, Westlaw) search engine. The name of this new product is Trinity.
> Trinity is the code name for the test blast of the world's first
> atomic bomb in New Mexico July 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer named it
> after Donne's sonnet "Batter my heart, three-pronged god". Given the
> legacy of Trinity - real and metaphorical nuclear clouds - I hope West
> Group will rethink the name of their proposed product.
> An excellent film, The Day After Trinity, about Oppenheimer and the
> project, has been shown several times on PBS and may be
> available in your public library's video collection.
> As I'm not religious I won't address the appropriateness of naming the
> search engine after a concept central to Christianity.
> Granted that as those involved in West's Trinity project probably
> weren't born when Trinity occurred, they may not have been aware of the
> horrible historical connotations of the name. We are however all living
> with the terrible consequences of the development of atomic bombs.
>
> Jane W. Evans janevans@netcom.com
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>
>
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