While other football fans spent the last weekend of October watching games, the 74-year-old retiree prepared still more formal inquiries into events that occupy him more than anyone would prefer — two high school football tragedies.
He discusses the questions that occupy him in a way that invites his readers to think about issues in their own life, rather than in Seneca's life.
I cannot do justice to the insightfulness of every chapter, so I will confine my review to two tasks: a brief summary of the chapters themselves, and some closer analysis of Bai's views on the compatibility of Confucianism with democracy and human rights — topics that occupy him for almost half the book.
It calls on some basic themes that occupied him, such as exile, Israel, the Diaspora, and more.
In work that occupied him to the end of his life, he traveled the world, testifying, lobbying and meeting with government officials, airline executives and bereaved families.
He thus anticipated both his later narrative paintings and the small, informal group portraits, or "conversation pieces," that occupied him in the years immediately after this auspicious debut.
One of the writing projects that occupied him during my visit was a personal summing up of what he had learned from life, which had been commissioned by the editor of the Saturday Review, Norman Cousins.
Stravinsky, even in this clear compositional style that occupied him in the 1920s and into the 1930s, tends to use these classical harmonies in isolation, for the chords move freely one to the other without their classical function.
As chief of police of St. Denis, a picturesque village in the valley of the Dordogne, Bruno Courrèges is unprepared for the sensational case that occupies him in THE DEVIL'S CAVE (Knopf, $24.95).
Bawa's educational designs culminated in his masterly work for the new University of Ruhunu, on a coastal site near Matara, a project that occupied him for much of the 1980s.
But General Myers, a Kansas native, is also deeply familiar with China's rise as a military power and North Korea's nuclear capability, both subjects that occupied him in the mid-1990's when he commanded American forces in Japan.
