• Librarian Addie Bemis, played initially with prim, ladylike dourness by Mary Bacon, lives a solitary life under the control of her abusive, alcoholic father.

    WSJ: Review: 'Happy Birthday' a booze-filled romp

  • For seven years, Klinenberg and his research team interviewed more than three hundred people living alone, plus many of the caretakers, planners, and designers who help make that solitary life possible.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • And yet the reputation of modern solitude is puzzling, because the traits enabling a solitary life financial stability, spiritual autonomy, the wherewithal to buy more dishwashing detergent when the box runs out are those our culture prizes.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • In this intriguing exhibition, and in the moving tributes by his friends Mr. Holl and Sanford Kwinter (available on Youtube), one sees the lasting value, and the folly, of an architect pursuing such a devout and solitary life.

    WSJ: A Man Outside His Time | Lebbeus Woods | SFMOMA | By Richard B. Woodward

  • Usman Khawaja at number three, and Michael Beer, the solitary spinner, who has played only seven first-class games in his life, and never at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • Avigdor Feldman, a lawyer who met with Zygier shortly before his death, has speculated that the difficult conditions of solitary confinement led the 34-year-old man to take his own life.

    NPR: Israeli Premier Defends Israel In Prisoner Scandal

  • In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.

    ECONOMIST: The Dreyfus affair

  • Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sings of a tranquil end to life's journey, hand in hand with her beloved, gazing at two solitary birds (represented by flutes) hovering in the dimness.

    NPR: Richard Strauss: Perfecting the Swan Song

  • Directed by Michael Colgan with scrupulous faithfulness to Beckett's text, he shows us a self-obsessed artist who, having chosen between (in Yeats's phrase) "perfection of the life, or of the work, " has lived to regret his decision to opt for the solitary pursuit of his elusive muse.

    WSJ: The Cherry Orchard | Krapp's Last Tape | The End of the Line | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

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