Word: livedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was seven years old, my father announced one day that we were moving to California. My reaction and my brother's were predictable. We went into a small panic at the prospect of going to a new school and having to make new friends. Our parents, just as...
Moving into his continuing-care community now would give him a leg up on creating a new life. Not only is it a high-quality facility, but it's also close to Princeton, where he has lived and worked for nearly 40 years. He'd be able to stay in...
They were not, though, heroes of the old epic kind, dedicated to colossal purposes, tight of jaw and stiff of upper lip. That was George Mallory, who said most famously in 1924 that he was climbing Mount Everest "because it is there." But if he ever reached the summit, he...
We need our heroes to give meaning to time. Human existence, in the words of T.S. Eliot, is made up of "undisciplined squads of emotion," and to articulate our "general mess of imprecision of feeling" we turn to heroes and icons--the nearly sacred modules of humanity with which we...
After Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet, thousands of astounded people wrote to him. "I thank God," wrote a 68-year-old lesbian, "I have lived long enough to see my kind emerge from the shadows...