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...said Peter von Mehren. “He wanted to reach out to his students in the same special way they had reached out to him throughout his life.” His knowledge of the law had romantic benefits as well. After hearing the young professor expound on the legal prowess of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, von Mehren’s future wife, Joan, knew she had found a keeper. “I knew I’d never meet anyone as charming, interesting, and witty as him,” she said. They were...
...know all too well. The history of the modern era doesn't lend itself to simplification, argues Judt, 57, an Englishman who began his career examining the French left. As he surveys the entire Continent, he is careful to claim that he has "no one overarching theme to expound; no single, all-embracing story to tell." Instead, he draws new insights from the familiar narrative of Europe's destruction and division - the West's rapid revival and the East's long stultification - and the still unfinished reunification of the Continent since 1989. Judt makes deft use of evidence from film...
...unlikable; they’re just annoyingly one-dimensional and, perhaps worse, there is so little differentiation between them that all seem to be minor versions of Woody Allen. The actors pick up on this, and the result is a cast of profoundly self-absorbed Woody reincarnations who expound on the themes of marital infidelity and ennui from within the safe confines of mouth-watering Manhattan apartments...
...that most people who live with me, eat with me or ride the shuttle with me know that I’m the first, last and only person on her speed dial. To fully understand the nature of the special relationship my mom and I share, allow me to expound on a day in the life of our Verizon plan...
...continued to expound upon my I-Decide-as-fascism theory when we convened the next afternoon before walking (“marching”) down to the footbridge...