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… in Algiers, Tunis, or Tripoli, he might have taken grim comfort in contemplating the greater trials of his predecessors; for the pirate states of the … Secretary of State to profane and undiplomatic language. Compared with the irritations endured by Secretary James …

… waiting for her delayed arrival as sure as Petey, come dark, would try to stay awake till she returned. Nightfall— she could almost see it— he’d come back to the window, watch through the sprawl of city …

… artwork as revealing “something significant and lovely in commonplace things,” even during the “spiritually tired … he termed “the beauty and wonder of everyday life,” was coming into sharp focus during those early years of …

… it should not be killed in cyanide, but allowed to die slowly: then the colors, especially the reds and blues, … shiver of gold, and then the river again. When the trout dies it turns its white belly to the mirror of the sky. The … eye, you are least certain it is there. When the blue heron dies it lies beyond reach on the far side of the river. …

… Clercs: Reflections on the Present Crisis In Humanistic Studies . . . because there is no end To the vanity of our … Now it may at first seem strange that Trilling should have committed himself to such a view in the spring of 1974, when … October President Lyndon Johnson had endorsed many of its goals in an address at Brown University. Then, early on in the …