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...blend in all the different themes. He described it as “a many-headed monster. It’s a thriller, it’s a mystery or its somewhere in between, it’s a book about books, it’s a book about friendship, love and obsession and about fathers and sons...
Stauffer is currently working on a book called By the Love of Comrades: Interracial Friendships, Democratic Dreams and the Meaning of America, which uses the Aristotelian idea of friendship as a “test case for a virtuous society,” he said...
...three groups, in black, in Native American and in white traditions, define equality as one of the many meanings of friendship,” Stauffer said...
...studied America’s literature as well, finding that “a lot of the classic literature on interracial friendship, Melville, Cooper, Twain, all of them, in creating their classic stories, were self-conscious of using friendship as a way to explore American political ideals...
Iyengar is 85 now, and he still teaches at the institute in Pune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taught his first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struck up a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi Menuhin that Iyengar brought his teachings to the West. His 1966 book Light on Yoga--with 300 pages of instruction and photographs of postures, or asanas--introduced yoga to people around the globe. Aficionados founded Iyengar groups in the U.S. as early as 1974 and slowly fed what has become mainstream Western acceptance of a 3,000-year-old Indian...