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Today is Valentine's Day. It does not appear marked in either my Filofax or my calendar from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Why is this so? Is it that the English have no patience for love? Do the patrons of the Holocaust Museum fear and tremble before even...
As Paul Aster, the novelist who originally planned the campaign, explained to The New York Times last week, "We wanted to make it very broad to touch as many people as possible. I think of this little brochure as a call to contemplation not so much a call to action...
One last point: The indiscriminate use of the word "meditation" is an invitation to trouble. Meditation can describe a serene contemplation of a beautiful flower, as well as a zombie-like trance induced by mechanical mental machinations. The phrase, "meditation is good for you" is about as meaningless as "milk...
Over the coming months, the Alliance will advance public policy issues for contemplation, conversation and debate. We encourage all to take part in the discussions. Thank you for your commitment to Cambridge. Bill Zamparelli
The facts come in too thick and fast for anyone to sort them clearly; this produces a vague sense that all contexts are alike, a contemplation of though itself rather than of its objects. The poet or his stand-ins, as facts overwhelm him, grows wistful, distant, unable to act...