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Groping their way back from the mud, sleet, and icy blasts of the stormy south, three athletic teams returned to Cambridge last week from their spring trips, wondering about the directions of the compass, and about the games they did not play below the Mason-Dixon line. Practically everybody on the baseball, tennis, and lacrosse teams enjoyed themselves hugely, but the fact remains that the party was on the Athletic Association, who have sacrificed a good deal of money before the god of rain, and therefore have been unable to take care of some of the teams that are crying...
Crane's imaginative compass, which held his story to a psychological true North, was the conflict between his hero's blind instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal war machine. The core of Wright's stories is the conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core...
...made among theological, philosophical and mystical works, Dr. Jung found the quaternity symbol everywhere. The square, the circle, the mystic squared circle suggest four; the Buddhist mandala-symbol is usually a circular lotus containing a square building with four gates; there are four seasons, four points of the compass, four Evangelists, etc. In the patient's dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that...
...still full of four-wheel-driven energy. When he laughs he still gets red all over. Pompous but kindly, he likes to lecture his men. When he is preparing a lecture, his wife has advance notice-he practices while shaving. Then a problem bothers him, he puts a compass in his pocket, strikes out into the woods until his mind clears. Whenever he passes an F.W.D. truck he tips...
Most astronomers believe that auroras are caused by swarms of electrified particles shooting out from the sun. Like a compass needle, these particles seek the Poles and they visibly ionize the air atoms, as an electric current ionizes gas atoms in a commercial sign. Auroras are brighter and more frequent when sunspots are active, and sunspots have been more active in recent months than at any time since 1870. Last fortnight a magnetic storm of unusual violence caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to fade out (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, while the great aurora waved its brilliant...