Named after the jazz song made famous by Johnny Mathis and later Nina Simone, the book features 35 poems that counterbalance love and fear, memory and the mirage of history, despair and the willingness to hope for ideals — loyalty, wholeness, honesty.
It's a story of ordinary people swept up in extraordinary times; a privileged young woman, an ambitious university lecturer, an illiterate houseboy and a British writer, all of whom struggle to stay faithful to their ideals, loyalties and loves as their world falls apart around them.
She comes to represent an ideal -- loyalty -- but does so with such blithe commitment that she's like grapefruit sorbet: she cleanses the palate.
The obviously early works are somewhat crudely structured and express Norse ideals of loyalty and heroism.
I had been contributing, unpaid, a weekly column on current events, motivated by the paper's ideals and loyalty to friends who have now resigned.
Njáll embodies traditional Norse ideals of loyalty and bravery yet faces his death by burning with the resignation of a Christian martyr.
Confucian ideals of loyalty to family and friends and Protestant individualism, for example, may well suggest different notions of the good, and the pluralist holds that neither need be wrong.
And I deal with the same themes every day on the show: the ideals of loyalty, brotherhood and family.
By talking about ideals like loyalty, dedication, solidarity, and kinship, white supremacist gangs can easily sell themselves to prospective members, even if they also require a lot from them.
The passionate intensity and dedication to sport make it an ideal environment for loyalty programs.
But he who loses his ego in some great cause, some great purpose, some great ideal, some great loyalty, he who discovers, somehow, that he stands where he stands because of the forces of history and because of other individuals; he who discovers that he stands where he stands because of the grace of God, finds himself.
