Vecsey vividly describes how Donora shaped young Musial, and how Musial for the rest of his life felt devotion to the working-class town.
"Having gone to New York City public schools, that quite literally saved my life," he said, "I feel an incredible devotion to make that possible for more kids".
Robert C. Young and his wife, Donna, both 45, feel the same devotion to New Rochelle, and they are working to make it better.
Many young people in Greenville who wish to play a part in the development of the New South look to him as an inspiring teacher, and many Negroes feel a peculiar devotion to him.
More and more I feel reverence and devotion directed more to the Divine I see in all and less focused on the personalities or persons I'm interacting with.
Its hypnotic and incantatory tone was deeply appealing to him, as was its essentially American feel; his devotion to his adopted country and its literature was passionate.
We like to believe the fantasy that Jobs peddled; it makes us feel better about our devotion to his products.
Grossman's last letter provides a valuable insight into what drove him to write and also explains something of his enduring appeal: "I have been thinking of you... almost all these last ten years that I have been working; the love and devotion I feel for people is central to this work, and that is why it is dedicated to you.
But he seems to find his most important taxonomical principles elsewhere, e.g., in the passion's intensity (timidity is different from terror), whether its object is oneself or another (self-esteem differs from veneration), and in further modifications of the object and its relation to us (love is distinguished from the devotion we feel for an object "greater" than we are, such as God).
To feel that protection, that devotion.
