Friendship

Listen Up

• From NPR’s Morning Edition (9-1-2004) Twyman and Stokes (3:45): “Commentator Frank Deford tells the inspiring story of a friendship that has transcended time. Jack Twyman has kept the spirit of his childhood friend and basketball teammate, Maurice Stokes, alive by helping him enter the hall of fame, three decades after his death.”
  
  
• Also from Morning Edition (5-17-2001) An Uncommon Friendship (8:39): Bernie Rosner and Fritz Tubach have been friends since 1983, sharing interests in books, tennis, and culture. While both are immigrants from Europe, Rosner is the only member of his family to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp, while Tubach was once groomed to be one of the Hitler Youth.
  
  
• Finally, from the Canadian Broadcasting System, via Soundprint, A Complicated Friendship (28:28) – the story of radio producer Frank Faulk and his unusual, long running friendship with a fundamentalist preacher in Kentucky. A story of two men who seem to disagree on just about everything.

Write Now

• Is it true that opposites attract, even as friends? Describe any friendship you know of that has had to sustain great differences.
• How can you explain the basis of any of the three friendships presented here?

Read On

• More from Wikipedia on friendship