Allan Ishac dedicates the sixth edition of his indispensable guide, "New York's 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet" (Universe, $14.95), to those devoted stewards of the city "who commit time and energy to creating wonderful new places to find refuge, retreat and renewal".
"Because of his indispensable help, as the Democratic mayoral nominee, I am now more able to unite our party in order to unite our city in order to take on the great tasks ahead," Mr. Green said at a news conference with Mr. Ferrer.
That was comforting news to Manager Joe Torre because Posada is one of his most indispensable players.
Ryan has lost one of his most indispensable players — he once called Revis one of the top three cornerbacks in N.F.L. history — and his job could be in jeopardy if the Jets miss the playoffs for a third straight season.
Throughout his professional career, Sun Tzu's Art of War was his indispensable guide.
Bert wrote books on Communism that are models of energetic scholarship, while Ella, his indispensable partner for six decades, emerged in her last years as a staunch Reaganite as well as a walking archive of the Old Left.
According to company legend, as Kenneth Davis explains in his indispensable history of the paperback book, Two-Bit Culturee," Lane had his eureka moment while standing in a railway station in Devon, where he had been spending the weekend with the mystery writer Agatha Christie and her husband.
Bradley revisits only one century, but even in 1787 white Londoners as well as black were dancing to black music at so-called "black hops" (as Peter Fryer reminded us 30 years ago in his indispensable history of black people in Britain, Staying Power).
"Art is not serious," wrote the novelist Julian Rathbone in an essay "cobbled together" for a collection of his work, The Indispensable Julian Rathbone, in 2003.
But such bland psychologizing misses the essential point: Hardy's pessimism was not a helpless reaction to traumas but the cast of his sensibility, that indispensable and unaccountable lens through which every artist makes sense of the world.
Mulroney ended with, "In the presence of his beloved and indispensable Nancy, his children, his family, his friends and all of the American people that he so deeply revered, I say au revoir today to a gifted leader and historic president and a gracious human being".
