"Four and a half years of watching films several times a week", he recalls in in his second memoir, Ways of Escape: it was "a way of life which I adopted quite voluntarily from a sense of fun".
When – six months ago – Jakie came into my life, the rescue home from which I adopted him speculated about why he had been turned out on the streets of Bolsover.
This exercise is meant, in part, to provide a comparison to the crowds that gathered for the first widespread Tea Party protests on April 15 , 2009 for which I adopted a similar approach and came up with an estimate of at least 300,000 protesters across the country.
Still, one central choice informs my journey, which I adopted as a neophyte and never abandoned: I meditate with no goal in mind.
This task force, on which I served, adopted a recommendation from Nicholas Lemann to explore a two- rather than one-year journalism education program in order to more broadly educate journalists.
Sandra Hebron Artistic director, London Film Festival In a film I watched recently, an unnamed poet remarked 'art can make strangers love each other', which I'd happily adopt as my aspiration for the Cultural Olympiad.
This mutual comfort was an extension of the degree to which I'd been adopted into the company of my grownup friend Michael, who ran a used-book store on Atlantic Avenue, a few blocks from my home.
And then Google Voice, which I have recently adopted, took her voicemail and auto-transcribed it.
Hegel saw himself as picking up where Heraclitus left off—"There is no proposition of Heraclitus which I have not adopted in my logic" (Barnes 1982: 57)—and indeed the Heraclitean view of a world shaped by the unity of opposites through strife and resolution does seem to foreshadow Hegelian dialectic.
