Word: contemplatione
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No wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion...
Twelve miles later, I prevailed. A 12-mile walk affords a short, slow man plenty of time to think. During my hours of contemplation, I decided that the cause of my "concussion" was the abrupt shift from time spent almost entirely in the long view (lakes, ocean, mountains, cliffs, fields...
Such distractions from contemplation are, of course, merciful, leaving Kate less time to brood over her mother's inevitable descent toward death. But her attention to detail can sometimes try a reader's patience. When her father, long divorced from her mother, pays a visit, Kate makes them breakfast from...
Although the graduate members presumably stand up for the future of the entire Institute, many have closer ties with the theatricals. And while most were also members of the social club, the organization has transformed so much over the past 30 years that practically every member experienced a different form...
Getting to meet Irish college students keeps Coleman on the job because he knows he has a duty to train them, sort of like Bryan Brown with Tom Cruise in Cocktail. "They're the best. But sometimes they get carried away with their order. It's fine to have one...