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Just as women had to learn mentoring and networking skills when they joined the workforce a generation ago, men today need to pick up some personal skills if they want to develop their emotional lives fully. Women have learned the value of intimate friendship and the relief that comes from talking things out. Websites, professional women's organizations, book groups and even the car-pool line at school provide opportunities for women to meet. Men would benefit from the same support, but it can be harder to find...
...This is your third collaboration with Paul, and because of your friendship and mutual respect, he's able to write characters for you, and other members of the cast, not just with you in mind, but knowing that you are going to play the part...
...think the presence of homosexual members within the fraternity would change the dynamic of the group," Bove said. "As a chapter we would not exclude a person based on their sexual orientation. If the brothers can get along with a person and feel that they can develop a strong friendship with them, then they are admitted to the group...
...jettisoning whatever might be incidental. Then, Phillips wrote, "abstract art ceases to be an amusement for the aesthete and becomes a divine activity." Phillips couldn't be Ryder's patron: the man was dead. But he was Dove's lifeline, acquiring some 55 works during the years of their friendship. "After fighting for an idea all your life, I realize that your backing has saved it for me, and I want to thank you with all my heart and soul for what you have done," Dove wrote to Phillips in 1946, just before Dove's death. And as this wonderful...
...free to use the technology however we want, even if it takes real effort, inspired by a touch of resentment toward our would-be technological master. We can in theory follow Emerson's advice: "Let man serve law for man; Live for friendship, live for love." Maybe all along it was the destiny of our species to be enmeshed in a web that would give us the option to exercise either amity or enmity over unprecedented distance, with unprecedented power. There are worse fates than to have a choice like that...