"But it's a worthwhile one, as Berliner crafts a quietly touching and illuminating memento mori from the steady dying of an intellectual light".
The Committee-men filed respectfully into the library, peered at the late President's desk, sat in his chair, touched a few mementos, and then gathered around the radio to hear a man in London speaking in French, open the first General Assembly of the U. N. O.
In the case of John Paul, rooms and objects he touched are not just mementos.
He begins to collect mementos of the affair: a hair clip, a cup Fusun touched, an earring.
THIS sense of having been touched by something greater than life attaches even to the cabinet of mementos of the '45, the last Highland rebellion, touched off in 1745 by the return of the 25-year-old Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender to the British throne, from France.
Virtually every inch is crammed with mementos, for there were few stars of the turn-of-the-century operatic world whose lives did not touch Sembrich's.
Virgil Thomson at seventy-five: Her perches in the rich, dark, bright Victorian living room of his flat in the Chelsea Hotel, among the books, musical manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and touch-for-luck mementos that make up the cherished protective debris of a lifetime, and even if he were alone he would give the impression that he was holding court.
The New Yorker, December 25 , 1971P. 39 Virgil Thomson at seventy-five: Her perches in the rich, dark, bright Victorian living room of his flat in the Chelsea Hotel, among the books, musical manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and touch-for-luck mementos that make up the cherished protective debris of a lifetime, and even if he were alone he would give the impression that he was holding court.
Over the years, the card accumulates notes and becomes a memento, and it might just keep both of you in touch longer.
