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Unbelievably, his pace increases day after day, and last week topped all the tumbling, tempestuous weeks that had gone before. It began with a compass-setting foreign-policy speech at an Associated Press lunch in Manhattan. Using a prompting device that enabled him to read without seeming to (see diagram, next page), the President eloquently replied to Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who recently insisted that U.S. policies toward Communism in general and Castro Communism in particular were based on "myths...
...Mahakala, whose blue bulk is crowned and garlanded with severed heads. The worshiper is expected to make a visual pilgrim's progress from the edges of the mandala, where he buries his worldliness in stylized cemeteries showing scenes of torture and immolation. Four godlings representing the cardinal compass points help him purge external reality. At the center Mahakala waits, clutching ritual symbols of self-annihilation: a skull bowl brimming with frothy blood and a chopping knife...
...story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some are merely slick or O. Henryish, but some, such as The Country Husband, The Death of Justina, Goodbye, My Brother, are as perfect as a short story can get, and have dimensions and echoes far beyond their relatively small compass...
...that gets into the vocabulary of painting ever gets out: realism in varieties from Social to Pop; expressionism in forms from New York abstract to the tough geometry of hard-edge painting; impressionism from still lifes to mental landscapes. Rather than prove that the wind blows strongest from any compass point, the Annual proves that it is rising everywhere. Through...
...freshman year is the one in which a Radcliffe student gets to know the University, sophomore year is the one in which she must get to know herself. "Sophomore year is a year without a compass," President Bunting says. "A girl has lost the bearings by which she was steering, and hasn't established new ones." If the choice of courses and a major is a difficult and important decision, the choice of values, friends, and even an identity is crucial...