Sublime

There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m

He wanted to go the lazy route and slip right in, without going through the rigors of courtship.

Soon, he even joined that ultimate paragon of upper-class camaraderie, the New York Metropolitan Club. Now, he was hobnobbing with Rockefellers and Morgans. But his ferocious work ethic, combined with his careful marshaling of spare evening and weekend hours for the family, left little time to enjoy these hard-won social niceties.

Ou à l’imposante carrure de Marie. Je l’avais appelée un après-midi au cabinet de Hoover. Elle travaillait toujours avec lui mais vivait encore dans son appartement personnel. Je lui avais dit que cela me ferait plaisir de la revoir, mais elle avait très gentiment décliné mon offre, m’expliquant qu’elle n’avait plus envie de compliquer sa vie avec