His columns are frequently playful — he once featured a woman, near the Plaza, walking three standard poodles, "an unmatched set in pink, turquoise, and white" — but they also convey an elegiac respect for the anonymous promenade of life in a big city, and a dead-serious desire to get it all down.
The Japanese prime minister's tributes to his country's war dead and his desire to alter its pacifist constitution have prompted China and South Korea to accuse him of militarism.
His child heroes grapple with tyrants who are essentially school bullies writ large; they are rewarded with experiences you have to be dead not to desire.
3. When Republican presidential candidates put the dead mother's desire for her child's freedom ahead of the live father's claim of custody, the Democratic-leaning states of Florida and New Jersey -- with sizeable Cuban-American voting blocs -- were put in play.
He asserts that "the whole of the Christian philosophy lies in this, … that all our hope is placed in God, who freely gives us all things through Jesus his son…, that we might be dead to the desires of this world and live by his teaching and example…, so that we claim nothing for ourselves, but ascribe any good we do to God" (Ep 1039, CWE 7 126 127).
And the entire show would be performed by a troupe that comes back from the dead, animated by the desire to share this story.
(For example, the thought that cousins are not related is inconsistent, the belief that Elvis is dead is true, the desire to eat the moon is inappropriate, a visual experience of a ripe strawberry as red is accurate, an imaging of George W. Bush with dreadlocks is inaccurate).
Devastating unemployment, a lack of opportunity, a never-ending pile of dead bodies and the desire to mean something within all the criminal and military encounters inspired Cano and Blunt to simply write about what was happening around them on a daily basis.
To quote his poem "The Wasteland," "April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain... .. Neruda's poems of the sea, which he claims were written during the "autumn" of his life, have the feel of Eliot's spring.
