The rupture was both personal and philosophical.
The choice she made was both personal and emblematic.
It enabled, in the words of the intellectual historian John Herman Randall, the search for a "cosmic companion" among intellectuals who could no longer accept a deity who was both personal and supernatural.
In the 1970s, male artists such as Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield ushered in a new wave of soul music: at once experimental and accessible, it was both personal and socio-politically aware.
As Mr Starr points out, the state's minorities, chiefly African-Americans, Hispanics, Japanese, Chinese and Filipinos, were all victims of a racism that was both personal and institutional (the Los Angeles Police Department was a shockingly corrupt example).
Dr. Close was both personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, now known as Congo, and chief doctor of the army at the time of the epidemic, which caused widespread panic in the country, three doctors involved in helping to control it recalled in interviews.
