Word: buzzings
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...something that goes by the name of the "human spirit," something which even science--if we are wary--cannot take away from us. He writes. "At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity: the human will as will, and not just as a surge of hormones: the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding...
...almost June, and still no Commencement speaker, but Aloian is confident: "Rome wasn't built in a day, you know. We've got time." Regrets so far include A. Bartlett Giamatti, Jerry Falwell, George C. Marshall, John McEnroe, Paul "Bear" Bryant, George's Pompadour, Buzz Aldrin, and Megan Marshack...
This most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more than half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...current buzz word used by Catholics for the process of adapting the Christian message to local traditions is "inculturation." The idea is not new. Four centuries ago, Father Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in China, tried to incorporate the Confucian reverence for ancestors into Catholic ritual. The Vatican quashed the experiment. Says one Catholic official in Rome who works with missionaries: "Inculturation is a difficult thing and sometimes I would say a dangerous thing. Leaving your own culture and adopting that of the people among whom you work may lead you to go too far, toward animism perhaps...
Crimson publication ceases today until we return January 2 for the Reading Period homestretch Sorry folks, but--as Leo Durocher, or Buzz Aldrin, or someone, once said--wait till next year. Happy holidays...