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...Catholics to turn out for Kennedy as heavily as expected. But part of it was also the unpopularity of Mike Di Salle's state tax increases and the overconfidence that led the Democrats to coast during the campaign's final week while Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss bombarded voters with radio, TV and newspaper ads-and most important of all. brought in Ike. Last week, surveying the wreckage, Di Salle gloomily declared: "They're going to have to find a scapegoat, and it might as well be me." His foes among the Democratic county chairmen couldn...
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...
Jangles & Bristles. It was a long leap from the days of bliss and blarney to the days of Ike, Nixon and Lodge, and before the moment of victory Jack Kennedy allowed himself to doubt that he might make it. In the final swing of the campaign, the Kennedy troupe was showing the frazzled edges of fatigue, even unaccustomed confusion. The motorcades in Connecticut and New York were dogged with inefficiency and out-of-kilter schedules ; so furious was Kennedy at one point that he stomped about in his Manhattan hotel room, called in his weary aides and chewed them...
Besides Copeland, a number of well-remembered professors were members of the Harvard Faculty during the three years Cabot spent as an undergraduate. George Pierce Baker, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry taught English Literature; Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Frederick Jackson Turner interpreted History; Ralph Barton Perry taught philosophy; James Bryant Conant was then an assistant professor of Chemistry, and Irving Babbitt instructed students in the subtleties of French Literature. The last subject caught the interest of Cabot, who had spent three years in French schools before entering Middle-sex and spoke French as fluently as English...
...Late Period, sculpture was intended for the temple and was meant to be seen by worshipers. Late Period sculptors tried to endow their statues with features that reflected the character and inner life of a specific person. The face of the Woman in Ecstasy (see color) is suffused with bliss as she tilts her vividly sculptured head upward, her eyes wide and her lips parted. Such sensuality is condemned as decadent by many Egyptian classicists. Yet this sculpture has an inherent vibrancy. The youth in the Dattari Statue combines the old and the changing civilizations. Beyond the hint...