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He combines Gallic charm with acerbic wit. As a working musician, he practices remarkable exactness and discipline. As a bachelor of 46, he is free to rise at 5 each morning to compose, and he often holds work meetings in his apartment at 8, thereafter running through as many as...
"I took an innocent soul," he explained, "yet one already touched with the terrible possibility of corruption." This is the young Arkady, illegitimate son of an aristocrat named Versilov, reared in loneliness in a series of boarding schools, and fiercely aware of his bastardy. He is struggling for an "idea...
We hereby agree to end the war on the following terms, so that both peoples can live under the joy of independence and can devote themselves to building a society based on human equality and respect for the earth. In rejecting the war we also reject all forms of racism...
Similarly, when the announcement of his selection as Pusey's successor came in January, Bok set a two-week timetable to clear out his desk as dean and begin assimilating the duties of the President. He vowed to "devote six months exclusively to trying to inform myself both by going...
Ed and I are two individual people and at this point we are still developing. We hope we will always be developing, some way. But for us to find something that is truly meaningful to devote ourselves to would be really wonderful-if we felt we could really make a...