Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Later, when a Cairo journalist self-importantly asked what Afro-Asians might do to compel the big powers to get together to end the cold war, the Pakistan President said crisply: "The best thing we can do is to behave peacefully among ourselves and stop disturbing each other's peace. All Asians and Africans are not angels, you know...
...reasons for Zazie's serious appeal to critics are complex. For one thing, Author Queneau, a onetime surrealist deeply concerned with language, tries to close the gap between literary and spoken speech in the Zazie novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact...
Samadhi, the trancelike bliss that is the yogi's goal, is for Koestler the closest thing possible to death, and the practice of Yoga is "a systematic conditioning of the body to conniving in its own destruction, at the command of the will, by a series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...
...Minnesota, which was upset by erratic Purdue, 23-14. Among the nation's few undefeated teams, Missouri obliterated its longtime nemesis, Oklahoma, 41-19; Mississippi held tough Tennessee to 24 yds. by land and air to win easily 24-3; and Yale proved it was the most emphatic thing in the de-emphasized Ivy League by humiliating Princeton...
...book, which was based on the 1931 real-life tragedy of a gay young thing who called herself Starr Faithfull, the heroine was a semiprofessional call girl, with a phone on Manhattan's BUtterfield exchange. In the movie, she is just an enthusiastic amateur (Elizabeth Taylor) who promiscuously offers peace to the tired businessman. In the book, the hero was a middle-aged commuter with a careless habit of making women and missing trains. In the movie, he is a handsome young casualty of the battle for status, a poor boy (Laurence Harvey) who got rich quick by marrying...