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...said Mencius, Chinese sage. Last week the U.S. was considering the character of a people it has not thought enough about in the past-the 16,000,000 human beings who are scattered among the 7,000-odd islands of the Philippines...
When Mrs. Ross went to interview the 99-year-old sage of Baker, Ore., she was introduced: "Papa, here's Nancy Ross come to see you from New York. Not Betsy, but her niece." The old man took one look at her nail polish and said: "Terrible wounded in every finger...
Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell...
When the smiling sage replied...
White-haired, toothless Sage Carver still sticks to his philosophy: "Save everything. From what you have make what you want." His gnarled hands are always busy with bits of string, tinfoil, clay, which he fashions, as he talks, into decorative objects. He is proudest of his picture of four peaches, painted with pigment made of native clay, not as a work of art but because any child, as a result of his researches, should be able to use similar material. "That's just the clay we walk on every day." says he. " Our clays are just as brilliant...