Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly before he died of lymphoma, the great writer and physician Lewis Thomas, whose books turned science into a way of appreciating the grandeur of the world, told me he thought the true measure of a life was that it be useful. He wondered in those last days if his own life had been useful, and many thousands of readers assured him that it had. Lewis died at 80, but he was fairly young when he did the bulk of his most useful work. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be," cried Robert Browning's Rabbi...
...competence of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Coast Guard, the Navy, the divers, tracking the plane from radar records, scanning the ocean floor, locating the wreckage, bringing up the bodies, a great mercy. And now, with the U.S. Navy in charge, you knew that there would be some simple grandeur and decorum at the end. The crashed pilot would be released to the elements, and the young women who perished with him, and it would take place beyond the public gaze, without narration or comment...
...always love doing it and return feeling reconnected to America and impressed by its grandeur and beauty and the friendliness of its people...
impressed by its grandeur and beauty and the friendliness of its people...
...today Paris remains suspended in limbo between its two identities, on the one hand the world center of fashion and finery, of grace and grandeur and, on the other, a beacon of hope for socialist ideals...