Word: greatnesse
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It's a classic tale, told and retold through the ages: the hero reaches for greatness but fails, finds wisdom and maturity in scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions...
Don't worry that you won't find any friends, because everyone who tries, does. And this "trying" doesn't mean you need to harass everyone who smiles at you--just remember that if there's a choice between silence and saying hello in the friendly first weeks of your...
Or, given the approaching holiday, am I thinking of fathers and their unreachable, unfathomable greatness? Fathers and sons; father knows best; life with father. Farther and farther away they grow, not only when they die and are sunk for good but in life too. Big Daddy. Daddy Long Legs. For...
Avant-garde writer and culture impresario Gertrude Stein was a stolid, heavy presence, monolithic, unladylike. She liked to gossip and had a great laugh. She boxed with welterweights for exercise. Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees." Alice B. Toklas was...
Greatness is easily talked about, but never quite as easy to achieve.