Together with Luisa Miller, it marks the high point of the relationship between Italy's greatest composer and the extraordinary German writer who both, in different ways, lambasted political tyranny, espoused radicalism and demanded freedom of thought and conscience as an essential human right.
It is intriguing that his analysis does not demand affinity of thought between the enlightened and the target for moral improvement, a condition it seems reasonable to insist on.
The complexities and chaos of combat environments demand diversity of thought, skills and capabilities.
However perplexing this idea appears against the backdrop of the sort of mechanical picture favored by reformists, it seems entirely plausible once we recognize that mathematics demands a distinctive kind of thought.
So while I'm at the stage of a new writing project where I am vaguely hearing, rather deafly, the demands of a new train of thought, the drawing goes on every day.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] economicsI share many objectives with Rethinking Economics, a group that wants to reform teaching in the profession, but I do not agree that the solution to the problem of a narrow orthodoxy in the subject is to broaden the curriculum to cover a wide variety of "schools of thought" ("The demand side", February 7th).
You may not have given a whole lot of thought to demand for wireless telephones in Nigeria, unless you happen to be an investor in MTN Group, which has seen its shares more than triple in value over the past year on account of it.
Though conversation was often interrupted by the demands of fatherhood, Mr. Glass's train of thought never derailed.
SoHo, the thinned-out Chelsea of yesteryear, demands little shoe leather but lots of thought and concentration; nearly all of Manhattan's still-experimental alternative spaces are there.
Most third rows seem to be afterthoughts, stuck in to accommodate customer demand but with the minimum amount of thought.
