“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.” SelfSocialCommunityMemoriesPracticeModernInformationConcernObviousAvailableTraditionalOrthodoxHolocaustPreservationContinuitySelf PreservationMembership Author:Noah Feldman
“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.” WayLifeLittlesMomentsMemoriesOur LivesTerribleMereTerrorScreensNostalgiaSuspenseContinuityMelodrama Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.” MindSometimesSocialCommunityReligiousMemoriesCitiesLeaderBuildingTraditionWorkersSpeedAbsenceEaseDestinationArchitectConvenienceContinuitySocial WorkerReligious Leaders Author:Howard Mansfield
“Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.” DoeHomeMemoriesPowerfulComfortOffersConnectionsComplicatedDaily LifeBelongingContinuityConstraintsPastimeGreat GiftsAmerican Family Author:Ken Burns
“Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.” AmericaMemoriesSpaceBaseballContinuity Author:Donald Hall
“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.” WayGivingMemoriesConditionsContinuityPredictable Author:Deepak Chopra