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...grass swarms with life, the earth is alive and stirs beneath me, everything rings in one chord, then the soul rejoices and flies in the immeasurable space around me. There is no up and down any more, no beginning and no end, I hear and feel the living breath of God . . ." Dr. Leary? Alan Watts? No; it was thus, in 1802, that a 25-year- old painter named Philipp Otto Runge set down his ecstatic nature worship in a letter to his elder brother. It may be that Runge had what most of us have lostthe power...
...philosopher. He catches perfectly the queerness of the scene when he does reach the Bastille: "The fortress is being looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert at stimulating desire." He tries to turn his eyes away when a laughing mob drags a headless corpse from the Hotel de Ville...
...supposed to make some difference to the viewer that the lady plumber has been on vacation and has returned to be embarrassed by yet another stained kitchen sink. Dentyne's "no-hum mouth" marks a new low in tasteless breath commercials, and the feminine hygiene spray ads tell more than anyone could want to know about Dorothy Provine and Jill Haworth...
Natural Food Associates, a non-profit, educational organization based in Atlanta, Texas, is founded on the principle that each individual is entitled "to breath fresh air, drink clean water, and eat pure food...
...people's councillor,'" Vellucci said. "I never voted against a housing project. I fought to bring the milk price down to one cent per bottle." In 1964, "we destroyed the urban renewal program. Six million dollars went down the drain because we opposed the Federal bulldozer. With the same breath, we proposed a resolution to create the Wellington-Harrison Citizens Committee," to give the local residents the opportunity to plan urban renewal projects. One fight Vellucci did lose, however, was to keep NASA out of Cambridge. The prediction he made about NASA in 1963 has come true: "I said...