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...other disciples have overheard the last part of this exchange, and by now they mistakenly assume that they can remain partly independent of Bhaktivedanta and still progress toward Krishna. They begin to pick Vedic fruits for the devotee, despite the fact that he has forbidden them...
...cremation of his mother. The ashes are intended for a tasteful urn among his dahlias, but somehow, in the overpowering presence of Augusta, Henry leaves the urn behind in his aunt's apartment. He is only reminded of his dead mother by a chance conversation overheard in a pub. "Peter can talk about nothing," a girl complains about her absent boy friend, "but- the Ashes."* The urn is recovered, but not before Auntie's servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police...
...desire to equate all such savagery is tempting to some. Moscow's Trud compared My Lai "to the destruction by the Hitlerites of the Czechoslovak village of Lidice, the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, and to the Nazi atrocities on Soviet soil." A baker in Bonn was overheard telling a customer who asked about the massacre: "What else can you expect?they're just doing the same
Perhaps the biggest break of the match came today when a Harvard player overheard a St. Louis coach Harry Keough tell a bystander. "We're looking forward to a good match in the finals on Saturday." The Crimson is confident and loose and is planning to surprise the Billikens tomorrow night...
...whole building seems to be full of fakes. In the dark passageways between the seminar rooms where I think I overheard an Egyptian 201 class, are arrayed an assortment of copies of Near Eastern sculpture. There is a four-sided stella, which, if I remember correctly, is a copy of the copy in the British Museum. It is called the Black Obelisque, and on it the Assyrian king Shalmanesar III recorded his conquest of most of the Near East, including Babylon. Nearby is a cast of an Assyrian bas-relief which shows kings impaling their captives on spears...