The guy at the next table, who was wearing a ski hat with a PETA logo, grew briefly critical ("It's not really huge portions," he said), but soon enough returned to his conversation, which concerned an acquaintance named Antler.
The first two kinds of knowledge concern acquaintance or familiarity what we might call "knowing-of".
He was planning a short story about a "man of letters" who is tremendously famous, "yet with whose work … not one of the persons concerned has the smallest acquaintance".
"Some in my family, in my circle of acquaintances, were concerned that, as a black person running for office, you're probably at greater personal risk than you might be if you were a white person," Powell told me.
[cartoon id= a13841"] "Some in my family, in my circle of acquaintances, were concerned that, as a black person running for office, you're probably at greater personal risk than you might be if you were a white person," Powell told me.
George Braunstein, an attorney who has represented Sage Stallone for 15 years, said friends and acquaintances had become concerned because they hadn't heard from Stallone in the past day, Braunstein said.
It's worth noting that an acquaintance with ancient philosophical traditions concerned with self-control and mastery of the passions (especially Stoicism and Platonism) did much to shape the mental prescriptions offered up by the Desert Fathers.
If you are concerned about a woman you know, be she a friend, co worker, or acquaintance, and you do not know how you can help her without putting her in further danger, contact an agency that can help you.
No distinction is ever made between acquaintance and stranger as far as the right to hospitality is concerned".
