"At Evelyn Place once a fortnight a group of men—the composer Roger Sessions, the mathematician Hermann Weyl, the philosopher David Bowers, the economist Friedrich Lutz, as well as Richard and John—met for an evening of serious conversation. The subject might be the poetry of Hölderlin, the works of Kierkegaard (which were beginnning to appear in Walter Lowrie's translation), the economy of postward Europe or the form of punishment that should be meted out to the Nazis."