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...epiphany, the momentary contact with God's blazing ambassador-all this has been lost in a welter of tinsel and feathers. The tongues of angels now speak with the voice of Muzak. It was not always so. Angels have an older ancestry than Christianity itself, and the most copious sources for named angels are not the New or even the Old Testament but Talmudic and Mohammedan writings. Still, for nearly 2,000 years the belief in angels was vital to Christianity. Only in the past century and a half have angels suffered a leakage of meaning, ending in their...
HENRI MATISSE may be the best proof since Shakespeare of the irrelevance of the facts of a great artist's life to the genius of his work. Not that the facts are unknown. They are copious. Henri Matisse was born 100 years ago into the family of a grain merchant. He took up the study of law and turned seriously to painting only when he was 22. He married, had three children and emphasized to interviewers that he lived an entirely ordinary, suburban life. Outwardly he was reserved, cautious, methodical-in style of life the lawyer still. He could...
...made the discovery after experiments with various slug killers. In a four-day test, he found that the standard bait, metaldehyde (which must be mixed with arsenic), attracted and killed only 28 slugs. Even then, the chemical caused the slugs to slug back: reacting to the poison, they exuded "copious quantities of slime" that Smith describes as "revolting to householders." By contrast, a shallow pan of beer lured 300 slugs: they sipped, then slipped, and happily drowned in the brew without a fight...
...appears that Yugoslav young people have a valid share in their society Youth in many ways are more recognized than in the United States. The Union of Yugoslav Youth (UYY), for example, is responsible for the organization of young peoples' activities from the ages of 15 to 28. With copious federal funds, it runs voluntary summer camps, worker programs, agricultural projects, and international exchanges. It also acts as a "youth lobby" in channeling opinions to the government. The leaders of the UYY are bright, ambitious, liberals. Several of them, as young as 27 or 28, are already effective members...
...undisciplined it's a miracle I ever get anything done. I'm a slow writer. I hate deadlines. All my writing is done at night, usually after midnight. I take copious notes, even though I remember everything. During an interview I'm writing all the time-just write, write, write-everything. I've only used a tape recorder once. That was on the Peter Fonda piece. I felt I just had to-Peter has his own vocabulary, his own way of saying things. Unfortunately, all of the really great people to interview are dead-Hitler, that...