"Maybe it would be a good idea to read the protocol," read a St Mungo's employee's response to an audience of councillors, volunteers and medical professionals.
I've taught this class for five years and the shortest list (by far) on every student entry I've read is in response to the prompt: "What were you good at today?" Sadly this seems to be true for a lot of people.
Too many observations are responses to a reading of The New York Times and not drawn from lived experience -- or, to use a word Stern favors, from "actualities".
The Queen of the New Age For 20 years, there has been a copy of "Heal Your Body," by Louise L. Hay, at my bedside, and I subscribe to her descriptions of the mind/body connections, but I was appalled to read Hay's response to questions about victims of genocide and the Holocaust (April 4).
But my response as I read was, "I know this feeling".
On one reading, Aristotle's response to this is to deny the principle of bivalence for future contingent statements: it is now neither true nor false that there will be a sea battle tomorrow.
The filmed parts as well as the stage scenes can be read as Musidora's response to a film world and a press that wished to see her in dramatic parts and in an acting style, that, in her experience, curtailed her capabilities.
(A classic of the genre was Blair's Hundred Days, the breathlessly thin account of the New Labour dawn, published in Derek Draper's name in 1997. "Write it? I haven't even read it," was the inimitable Draper's response to questions about whether was all his own work).
Though Richard Strauss's "Metamorphosen for 23 Strings," which here received a cogent and unsentimental reading, was his response to the Allied bombings of Dresden and Weimar during World War II, it's tempting to hear this ruminative music as not just a lamentation for humanity but also as an old man's apologia for his obliviousness to the realities of the Nazi era.
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