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...Professor MacLeish's third lecture on poetry that saved him. Like the Renaissance discovering the Greeks, like Goethe discovering Shakespeare, like the nineteenth century discovering nature, Harrison discovered Oriental poetry. He had run across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta...
What is the meaning of Jesus' well-known words about children and the King dom of Heaven? In a cryptic "saying," the Gospel of Thomas seems to suggest that it has something to do with psychological unity: Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner...
...mend some of the broken lives around him, the count returns. He flings his wife out the window, hoping to frame his double, but the cagey Briton, now enjoying his imposture, proves himself innocent and refuses to be relieved of stewardship. The two Guinnesses shoot it out in a cryptic climax that leaves both audience and the chateau puppets dangling in confusion...
Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower. To the Pacific Express, already a hundred miles out, sparked a cryptic radio message: return to base. At first the pilot protested, but Tachikawa transmitted an unmilitary postscript: "You'd better do it, sir, or the general says he will have your plane brought back under air escort...
Seemingly, this statement means that the unlucky green slip holder can not take a course for credit in English, no matter how hard he tries. Of course, this is not so, since the cryptic inscription really designates an "unassigned" credit in English. But for the English concentrator the problem has only begun. Technically, he holds a credit for Freshman English, which, of course, does not exist at the University. For this reason, English Department officials generally have expressed some reluctance to accept this "unassigned" credit for use toward a B.A. in English, especially where Honors work is involved...