Sublime

Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

“The modest and cordial young fellow who passed through New York a few weeks ago with his mother will never be known outside the circle of his mourning friends,” commented John Hay in a touching obituary written for the New York Tribune. “But ’little Tad’ will be remembered as long as any live who bore a personal share in the great movements whose

archives of Charles Scribner’s Sons, which are housed in the Princeton University Library.

The conference between Maxwell Perkins and old Charles Scribner, when they met face-to-face, over the unprintable words in Hemingway’s manuscript has become publishing legend.

outstripped that of every other city in Europe. One study of the period by the scholar Small wonder that Florence made a congenial home for the scholars, who would turn

unlearn the linear belief that America (or the entire modern world) is exempt from the seasonal cycles of nature.