In one early story, Patrick's college roommate, the grandson of a famous comedian, abandons his stage ambitions to devote himself to Russian literature.
The Beatles were fed up with live performances by that point, and when their 1966 North American tour ended, they retired from the stage, deciding to devote themselves instead to recording.
The campaign stops come after two weeks in which Romney has spent less time on the road than is usual for a candidate at this stage, preferring to devote himself to preparations for the first of three presidential debates, in Denver on October 3.
Juliette had little talent and soon renounced the stage in order to devote herself exclusively to him, becoming the discreet and faithful companion she was to remain until her death in 1883.
As the report's authors delicately put it, "a debate is likely over how much the Global Fund should focus on heading off AIDS in large, next-wave countries where it is in the earlier stages, and how much to devote to the hardest-hit countries in southern Africa".This debate will be irrelevant, though, if the fund runs out of money, and other mechanisms are not put in place to compensate.
It is a commonplace of the ordeal of Henry James that the presentation of his work on the stage, to which he devoted many years, has been invariably better managed in the theatre by other hands than his own.
Unable to return to the stage, he devoted himself to movies and television.
The likelihood is that after one or two more fights he will depart the stage and devote himself to such trivia as a $5bn export business between America and Asia that he promises to supervise.
Determined to move from the aisle to the stage, he devotes himself wholeheartedly to training.
For the first time this year, an entire Pride Toronto stage is devoted to Middle Eastern song and dance and to Middle Eastern queer people and artists.
