The four individuals recite poignant oral histories, touching on their family origins, the struggles they've faced, and the power of music and words to transcend hate. .
Izzard struggles to respond directly to questions - arriving at answers via a stream of references and stories that dip into the surreal, reach back through history, touch on the personal and, very often, the political.
Some of his letters and a few passages of his Roman History touch upon philosophical subjects: especially noteworthy is the vehement criticism of Aristotle in the dialogue Phlorentius, ostensibly an account of the author's debate with Barlaam of Calabria (c. 1290 1348) in 1331 1332.
There are people that at any moment in history touched on something that said something about their time and place.
At the beginning of this piece, writer gives a brief aviation history touching on the stunts of pilots in the early days.
Create a short chapter for an elementary school textbook about this time period in American history, touching on all of the aforementioned topics.
I've enjoyed her previous books for the way that the sweep of human history touches and turns the intimate lives of her characters.
Rushdie himself says that "Midnight's Children is a product of its moment in history, touched and shaped by its time in ways which its author cannot wholly know".
Cynthia Ozick, the essayist and novelist, once wrote that, whereas Sigmund Freud "dared only a little way past the margins of psychology, Scholem, whose medium was history, touched on the very ground of human imagination".
In many respects, Shannon seems like a microcosm of world history, touched in strange and unlikely ways by the grand currents that have driven global events since the end of the second world war.
