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Zero Population Growth. The angel of popular culture today is to his forebears what the last American buffalo, ailing in some future zoo, will be to the mighty herds that roamed the West: a token, a remnant of a spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with...
...great goal in life is to be rich enough never to go to a restaurant." That would seem utter nonsense coming from anyone but Craig Claiborne, now in his 13th year as food news editor of the New York Times. So, with the royalties from five successful cookbooks coming in regularly, Claiborne last week notified New York Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal that he was resigning ("without any animosity"). He will stay on until a replacement can be found...
...Taos Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, the land is both religion and church. Since the 13th century they have particularly venerated Blue Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. For them, Blue Lake is roughly analogous to Catholicism's Vatican or Judaism's Zion. But the tribe has owned neither land nor lake since 1906, when Teddy Roosevelt took them over as part of Carson National Forest. Although the House of Representatives has passed legislation in the past two years to right the old wrong, the measure has always been killed in the Senate Interior Committee...
...counterculture. But what kind of art did Zen provoke in China and Japan? In a brilliant show that took a year to assemble, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has provided a definitive survey of the course of Zen ideas and disciplines as reflected in Oriental art from the 13th to the 19th century. The result of long negotiation with the Japanese government, it includes several scrolls of such rarity that they are seldom exposed even in Japan...
...distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...