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...nations to halt a panicky run on the pound, Britain's currency rallied on New York exchanges to a high of $2.7929. But that was still below its par strength of $2.80, and for the basic cause of the sickness-Britain's longtime negative trade balance-no cure was in sight...
...rare mystic able to chalk out clearly to others the signposts leading out of reality, in the form of easily remembered shorthand formulas. The essence of his ethic came down in "Four Noble Truths": 1) Existence is suffering; 2) suffering springs from desire or craving; 3) the cure for suffering is extinction of desire; 4) to achieve the desired absence of desire there is an Eightfold Path of conduct to follow: right views, right effort, right mindfulness, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood and right concentration. As a definition of rightness, Buddha merely offered "Five Moral Rules...
...devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality...
...Federal Bulldozer is worth the time it takes you to get from the cover-picture of a fierce neighborhood-destroyer caught in the act, to the back-flap photo of the author, who looks the picture of innocence. Anderson dispels the long-standing myth that urban renewal is a cure-all for city housing problems. It is regrettable that he builds so many myths...
Nominally novels, William Burroughs' works are, more precisely, potluck: the cauldron, having flipped its lid, spills nightmare fantasies, sick jokes, narcotic dreams and polemics against pushers and in favor of the apomorphine cure. And, of course, concedes the author, "obscenity is coldly added as the total weapon...