José's my first non-rat romance. Not that he's my idea of the absolute finito. He's too prim and cautious to be my absolute ideal..., Now, if I could choose from anybody alive, I wouldn't pick José. Nehru, maybe, or Albert Schweitzer. Or Leonard Bernstein.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musi...cian. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny's life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn't let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nati...ons), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »