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Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...
...pleasant time when the Yardling tries his hand at several disciplines, and wisely chooses the field in which he wants to work for the major part of his last two years. This is a scheme nicely calculated to give the Harvard graduate both breadth and depth of intellect. Unfortunately it often doesn't work out that way at all, as shown by the figures released by Dean Leighton yesterday...
...penultimate year of the 20th Century's fourth decade will not go down as one noted for athletic records, medical discoveries, great works of literature or other achievements in the realm of the intellect, muscle or spirit. It will be remembered, in Europe particularly, as a year in which men turned or were forced to turn their attention almost exclusively to politics...
Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other...
...rather full-bodied cubistic tendency which is typical of the artist. Rolling hills, solid mountain, and a general structure based upon gradually receding planes, comprise the basic elements of the pieces. It is difficult to say, as many do, that Cezanne is a painter who appeals primarily to the intellect. Despite the fact that his style is one the foundation of which rests in a mental concept of his subject, his feeling for shape and his comprehensive power of suggesting texture and quality, serve to strengthen and support my belief in his capacity for influencing the senses. Like most great...