Word: companionship
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Wandering the streets of St. Petersburg, which Bissell describes with luscious detail, Timothy is a spiritually fragmented man. Despite the companionship of his gay lover Sasha, Timothy is stuck in the aimless pursuit of curing his loneliness, and Bissell paints a movingly somber portrait that is never gloomy or drab. He wonderfully combines his bitingly sardonic (sometimes ironic) sense of humor with profound depictions of loneliness and emptiness...
Based on the Farnum Lectures she delivered at Princeton in 2003, “Invisible Listeners” is built around three essays on three very different poets—George Herbert, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery—who, Vendler argues, share a common desire to find companionship or hold colloquy with some fundamentally inaccessible “other...
...certainly a backlash to the shockingly egregious instances of expense-account excess that have come to light in recent years. In one case, brokers hoping to win more business from Fidelity Investments treated one of the firm?s traders to a lavish bachelor party, including private jet travel, female companionship and, yes, dwarf tossing, not necessarily in that order. The hosts expensed it. Last year, the CEO of Savvis Communications resigned in the wake of a $241,000 charge to his corporate card during an evening with business associates at a strip club in New York...
Nonetheless if Showalter overcompensates, he only does it because of his exacting detail. Showalter exquisitely demonstrates Elliot’s desire for companionship just by showing the picture on Elliot’s coffee mug: two cats sitting on a window ledge. Styled after the screwball comedies of the past, the film has an undeniable 1940s vibe, and it lives in Elliot’s tweed coat, navy vest, and plaid newsboy cap. The result is a fresh but nostalgic wide-eyed wonder that leaves you mildly elated...
...communities, they can be extremely dangerous to their own members over time, as they ostracize individual members, split in two, or disintegrate all together. How can any upperclassman expect to find his or her place in a House once the group on whom he or she has relied for companionship and friendship disappears? Considering how potentially devastating the insularity of blocking groups can be, it really is a marvel that this veritable make-work project for Harvards thinly stretched counseling resources is tolerated by the College...