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I know no better way to say it or write it. Life has those kinds of moments—the kind where human language experiences the poverty of speech, unable to adequately describe personal or communal pain.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The clocks are sorry, the clocks are very sad. One stops; one goes on striking the wrong hours. And the grass ...

In June, Peter and I attended his 40th class reunion at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. It isalways a privilege to attend these gatherings with Peter; however, this was the first time ...