Word: exaltedness
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After intermission, the audience was jarred out of its complacency by Davis' powerful rendition of the Prokofiev Symphony No. 6. Prokofiev composed this symphony in the years 1944 to 1947, and it bears many of the influences of what the Russians call the "Great Patriotic War" (known to us as...
In the beginning the Buddha found enlightenment underneath the bodhi tree, near what is now Nepal. A pampered prince born around 563 B.C., he frustrated his father's efforts to shield him from the sights of suffering and death, became a wandering holy man and eventually formulated the Four Noble...
On a beautiful fall day, when I recall what was grand and exalted and now is gone forever--the Burlington Zephyr and the North Coast Limited, the New Yorker of my youth, Memorial Stadium where we spent Saturday afternoons cheering for the Golden Gophers, the Earle Brown farm that was...
For a long time, suicide has been a felony in this country. This law reflects the traditional belief that the lives of individuals belong not only to themselves but also to the families and communities in which they are embedded. In recent history, however, our laws have increasingly suggested that...
Such joy. It was the spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What...