Word: companionship
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Everyone knows a little about Washington and Lincoln. But the astounding actions of these two presidents go in one ear and out the other for too many. Our everyday lives are a torrent of choices, often of a mundane nature: procrastination or work, companionship or loneliness, chickwich or savory baked tofu. I know little about President Clinton's current sex scandal or our country's troubles with Iraq, and I really do not care that much. I place much more importance on what I am doing this weekend, why I have not asked that girl out yet or when...
...some extent, Miles gets at an important feature of religion. One certainly does not need to believe in all of the tenets of the church to enjoy the beauty of the liturgy or to benefit from the companionship of the other church-goers. Still, I think it is unfair to represent religion, or pious agnosticism, as a ready-made answer to American individualism. Moreover, while church attendance may be good for society, it is unclear whether wide-scale doubt is equally good. Miles fails to show us what a kingdom of doubters would look like, if that is indeed where...
...students had nothing in common but a leash to this dog, yet a visitor could sense their mutual pride--the older child in befriending a member of the Stanford family he might never have known about, the younger child in facing his fear and discovering the joys of companionship. Apache Rose, not unlike middle school, is a bridge...
...taking on their own humanity. This is a scary thought, and Aphex Twin's music mirrors that thought, even when it tries to sound comforting. The twisted, evil vocal distortions are the only human sounds in a world of machines--voices decrying our increasing lack of real human companionship. This is music for the next millennium indeed...
...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...