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...student said that a member of Dunster's staff had mentioned actual compulsion. But one sophomore said that his tutor had told him he would be pressured to vacate Wigglesworth, and another expressed the feeling that "they want us all to get down and participate in the Dunster Gung Ho...
...nuns). The practitioner of Zen is concerned only with enlightenment, which he calls satori. Enlightenment is often achieved by means that are shocking, in every sense of the word. A master may help his student to satori by hitting him with a staff (pang) or roaring at him (pang-ho). A less physical shock technique is the koan, a problem designed to shock the mind beyond mere thinking. "You know the sound of two hands struck together," goes one koan. "what is the sound of one hand?" There is no trick answer; each disciple must find his own. One monk...
...Westward Ho the Wagons! (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing...
HONG KONG The Lucky Girl As a top box-office draw for at least 20 of his 35 years, handsome, open-faced Chinese Movie Star Huang Ho might well be called the John Wayne of the Far East. Already a big name in Shanghai before World War II, Huang turned his back on his homeland when the Communists took over, and, as the idol of Free Chinese movie fans from Java to Malaya, went on making up to ten pictures a year in Hong Kong and Formosa, often for the princely Asian salary of $2,000 (U.S.) a picture...
...that was not all. Before leaving, sprightly and fickle little Hung had captured still another heart-that of the matinee idol Huang Ho himself. He had met her two years before in a movie studio. "She was fragile," he wrote later, "and looked as though she must have tasted the bitterness of life. I held her in high esteem, and never for a single moment cherished an impure thought toward her." But soon after their meeting, much to the shy young actor's surprise, Hung called him on the telephone. "She poured out her heart to me," he wrote...