Word: friends
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...could play drama or comedy on the screen, but it was on the stage that he made his legend. Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud delivered storied portrayals of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Richard II, and triumphed as a director as well. He was mentor, friend and equal to his fellow knight, Sir Alec Guinness...
...Bush?s adviser Lindsey is a good friend of the Fed chairman?s. So are Cheney and Paul O?Neill, Bush?s choice as Treasury Secretary. Both worked with Greenspan in Gerald Ford?s White House. All of them will be going to work on Greenspan to persuade him that Congress would simply spend the surplus before it can be used for bill paying. And George W., whose father had notoriously frosty relations with Greenspan, has gone out of his way to court the chairman. A few weeks ago, after their get-acquainted meeting in Washington, he even squeezed...
...Schulz knew better than anyone that he could never really become a sunny citizen of the Golden State. He found little comfort in fame or prosperity or the California sun. Pain gave him his core. "I think that one of the things that afforded Sparky his greatness," a friend would say after his death, "was his unwillingness to turn his back on the pain...
...discussion entered into the mysteries of friendship---the risks and tolerances. Friendship is a form of faith. But when faith in the friend and the friendship is confronted with hideous facts about the past, what are the limits of forgiveness? I'd say to hell with the politician and to hell with the collaborator...
...true that friendship is sometimes an exercise in compartmentalizing. We have all been friends with A. and with B., even though A. and B. hate each other. But to have one compartment for a friend who is a survivor of death camps and another compartment for one of the murderers---here broadmindedness approached the grotesque...