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...three gods of their bizarre theology represent "three basic patterns of human reality." One of them is Jehovah, a "wrathful God of vengeance and retribution," who demands "discipline, courage and ruthlessness" from his followers. The second is Lucifer, wrongly confused with Satan, they say. He is the "Light-Bearer" who urges humans to "enjoy life to the full, to value success, to be gentle and kind and loving." The third is Satan, "the receiver of corrupted bodies and transcendent souls," who impels humans both toward a subhuman life of depravity and a superhuman life of asceticism. The Processeans see Christ...
...purple and pleasant plastic bursar's card will soon go the way of mastodons, maid service, and the nickel beer. Starting in September, all Harvard students will be issued identification cards carrying the bearer's photograph, signature, and board contract status...
...passbook is a 20-page book which every black South African must carry on his person at all times, and which must be surrendered to any white policeman on demand. The book must be signed by the bearer's employer every month, and kept up to date with tax payments, residence permits, and personal information. Polaroid equipment, distributed in South Africa by Frank and Hirsch Limited was responsible for 20 per cent of all pictures taken for passbooks in 1970, according to Polaroid statistics...
...Harvard man has been difficult, but for entirely different reasons. Anyone who has gone to Harvard knows how many "Harvards" exist under the umbrella of the institutional title. Yet to others I have met, it has always meant something either essentially threatening or something which has conveyed upon the bearer of it an almost beatific quality. From my Marine training I remember: a platoon commander from West Point screaming in my face that I had written "Harvard College" rather than "Harvard University" on my registration forms as some kind of subtle joke; peers in training stunned and disturbed when...
...metaphor of the mind and its power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...