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...Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably...
Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...
...Arjuna asked: 'My Lord, how can we recognize the saint who has attained pure intellect, who has reached this state of bliss, and whose mind is steady? How does he talk, how does he live, and how does he act?' ". . . The sage whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not to rouse by enjoyment, who is without attachment to anger or fear-take him to be one who stands at that lofty level. "He, who wherever he goes, is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil...
This week, as the Young Sage turned 56, educators in China's 148 universities, colleges and technical schools debated Hu's controversial new "ten-year plan" for Chinese higher education...