...Richard H. Davis Thoreau was likely the first American to entertain seriously the possibility of identifying himself as a yogi. “Depend upon it that rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully,” he wrote to his friend Harrison Blake in 1849: “To some extent, and at rare...

...Belle Randall In memory of Stanley Cavell, a family friend of more than a half-century’s standing writes about his years in Berkeley (1944 to 1964), when he was deciding between music and philosophy as his field and then, eventually, joined the philosophy faculty as a lecturer. This guest column...

... had been turned to ash,” in Konrád's chilling words. Seventy years later, he proceeds from these events to reflect on guilt and contrition, on sympathy and empathetic suffering, on how friends can become enemies during war, as well as on the Jewish heritage underlying Christian culture. Copyright ©...

...Roger Moseley This article details the motives, processes, and historical context behind an improvised performance of a commedia dell'arte -style pantomime originally devised by Mozart and his friends during the Viennese Carnival season of 1783. The performers' efforts to reconstruct and interpret...

...Caleb Thompson Tolstoy writes in a letter to his friend A. A. Fet that what he has written in War and Peace , “especially in the epilogue,” is also said by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Representation . Tolstoy adds, however, that Schopenhauer approaches “it from the other side...

... and develop a new language to capture it. They understand that resistance against the ruling party is futile but do not reject their own responsibility for their friends and neighbors. The article concludes that Jünger presents the protagonists' escape at the end of the story as a temporary solution. He...

... to abolitionism and other pressing social causes. He reviews the scholarship on this issue, noting the recent tendency to look for mystical aspects to the social commitment of Quakers. Instead, however, he argues that the culture of Friends during this period became self-enclosed to a remarkable degree...

..., an ultimate and real friend was a person who withstood the threat of terror and did not betray. No matter what the reason, the ubiquity of profound friendships is acutely believed in by many Russians, who frequently contrast their society with those of the United States...

... Elaine Pryce Rufus Jones (1865 –  1948) has been described as “among the half-­dozen most influential Quakers in the history of the Society of Friends,” “a great Christian leader and Quaker saint.”1 His biographer describes him, more specifically...

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.... To this, there are witnesses. I say so, of course, to ease my con- science. Beyond which, in circumstances that made a break in our relationship seem inevitable, I asked for reassurances in a way that scandalized friends of the family. It s a curious thing. There are mothers who adopt this tactic in their daughters...

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... world works. © The Estate of Michael Baxandall 2010 2010 “IS DURABILITY ITSELF NOT ALSO A MORAL QUALITY?” Michael Baxandall It is striking and painful that the mental images of dead friends should be such attenuated images...

... Translated by Chris Andrews Mateo Aguirre Bengoechea: Buenos Aires, 1880 – Comodoro Rivadavia, 1940 Owner of a vast ranch in the province of Chubut, which he ran himself and to which few of his friends were granted access, Mateo Aguirre Bengoechea...

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.... It seemed as if the only thing that could make her sad was if we didn't praise and finish to the last bite the food that she prepared for us. I had left Germany to study in America and had settled there. I would go back every summer to visit friends and relatives, including aunts and uncles who lived...

.... —  In response to the “Jottings of a Hungarian Catholic” . . . Have friend! ofDear aHungarian “Jottings the to response...

... who holds The Letters in his hands holds the actual friendship, with virtually no sense of scenes played out elsewhere, and accordingly is offered a rare chance to understand where two old friends went wrong. Spanning some thirty years and comprising a paperback...