Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panel, titled "Religion and Politics," featured Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; Jeff Taylor, director of governmental affairs for the Christian Coalition (CC); Jim Wallis, a fellow at the Center for Study of Values in Public Life and editor of Sojourner magazine; Rev. Dr. Albert Pennybacker of the National Coalition of Churches of Christ and Anna Greenberg, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
Like Kureishi, Taylor begins at the moment before separation, then works backward through the marriage and its turning points, which also include the author's adultery. In Taylor's case, however, the decision to split up is mutual, and his writing, lucid and lovely, creates a sense of intimacy with the reader that Intimacy fails to do. We get a clear view into Taylor's windows, but we are not disgusted by what we see. "At what precise point does the breakdown of a marriage become irretrievable?" the author wonders. "While it requires will to make a marriage work...
Despite his best efforts to explain what brought him and his wife Maureen to the point of divorce, the reasons are not completely satisfactory. Were they never, in fact, properly in love? Did they both just run out of energy? Nevertheless, Taylor's searing pain at the separation from his wife and daughter, from what he calls "the best of myself" and "what was intended to be the central experience of my life," is convincing--and strangely affirming of that very experience. "But marriage is beautiful," as one character in Intimacy says. "A terrible journey, a season in hell...
...backdrop by five men in white overalls and five women in white thigh-high shifts. The score is John's Book of Alleged Dances, a collection of minimalist hoedowns composed by John Adams and played by the Kronos Quartet; the steps have the feather-light touch of such early Taylor masterpieces as Aureole and Airs, with Thomas Patrick partnering the exquisite Rachel Berman in a fetchingly sweet love duet...