Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims...
But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continen...
Andrew Reynolds, acheerful fellow in his early 30s, pilots Sydneyferryboats for a living. I spent the whole morning shuttling back and forth acrossthe harbor. After our third run Andrew shut down the...
Another interesting thing about kabuki is the exchange between the performers and the audience. Whereas most live theater around the world has a strong division between the two—with spectators quietly...
In the early morning, the food that had been laid out for the dead is thrown into a river or into the sea as it is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it.
Likemany young people, Jessica wants to travelthe globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it full-time. Sheand her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stoppingever...
China’sexports seemed unimpressive next to the American marvels brought into theirharbors by the barge load, one after the other in the early decades of thetwentieth century—from new machinery to nylo...