It has been their gift to me, and I imagine to many others, that such a speed cannot ever be attained in a moving car without private, thrilling reminiscence.
We may again know times in which the greatest human endeavors are private ones — thrilling, mesmerizing even, and not quite ours.
Marcia Giordano, a New York City real estate broker, and her husband, Shawn, a private chef, were thrilled when P. S. 276, a new elementary school in Battery Park City, opened near their home in 2009, just after the birth of their son, Otto.
The scenes of characters practising in private are subtly thrilling; and there are also more general arguments about the role of music in east and west, in the marketplace and in society.
(By the way, some private equity executives were thrilled about the Volcker Rule because it would mean commercial banks could no longer compete with them. They also seemed happy that the banks were in the cross hairs; they were no longer the focus of the public's ire).
After a fine lunch of oysters and veal kidneys at Au Caneton, I stepped out onto the main street and the long, low ramble of the Hotel de Croissy, a private estate, and was thrilled to find a plaque announcing that within was the garden where Debussy had composed one of his most gorgeous piano pieces, "The Garden in the Rain".
Furthermore, he thought, the tension between Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton was just as evident in public as it was in private, spoiling some of the thrill for viewers who had already watched the campaign play out on television.
I spoke with officials at the World Food Program, and they'd be thrilled to have private groups or individuals help sponsor school feedings.
"Most investors in Clear Channel were thrilled that the private equity guys took radio off their hands," recalled Michael Nathanson, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
Joining forces with a private investigator named Keith Ron Livingstonn), Dory thrills at the validation that a pro thinks she's onto something.
