LONDON — Britain's apparent love affair with the American stage continues, so much so that you might wonder just which side of the Atlantic you are on.
As leader of the Conservative party in opposition, David Cameron frequently excoriated the Labour government for their apparent love affair with measuring everything.
So went the apparent love affair between the eccentric billionaire and her feng shui master — two characters who have made headlines here.
The 1860 volume contained the "Calamus" poems, which record a personal crisis of some intensity in Whitman's life, an apparent homosexual love affair (whether imagined or real is unknown), and "Premonition" (later entitled "Starting from Paumanok"), which records the violent emotions that often drained the poet's strength.
These days, the market's gyrations reflect a flight from risk that has become all the more apparent since the Enron affair raised doubts about the financial health of once-unassailable corporate icons.
Much of the reignition has so far been about establishing control over the party, state, military and what there is of civil society, after the Bo Xilai affair made apparent the internal crisis of party rule.
While the shooting was condemned by human rights groups – and a senior UN official – as looking like an "apparent extrajudicial execution," the affair has also exposed the febrile faultlines in Israeli society, with a number of senior politicians, including the defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, being heavily criticised for pursuing a legal case against the soldier.
While not tempted to imitate Weil's suicidally ascetic life style, he admires the severe purity of her answer to the problem of evil, of suffering, of God's apparent abdication from the affairs of the world.
But just how little regard Messiaen, a fervent Roman Catholic, had for worldly affairs is apparent in the "Diptyque," where earthly life is depicted as a vain bustle in contrast to the sublime stasis of paradise.
