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...proponents of the view that man is perfectible, he extends small comfort. Whatever man is today, Lévi-Strauss insists, man already was. Among the more remarkable parallels he notes is the homology between the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and those of an unnamed Dakota Indian sage. "Everything as it moves," Lévi-Strauss quotes the Indian, "now and then, here and there, makes stops. So the god has stopped. The sun, the moon, the stars, the winds, the trees are all where he has stopped." And from Bergson: "A great current of creative energy...
...catacomb, he establishes his heroine Rosemary as a lapsed Catholic. Her story begins when she and her ambitious actor-husband, Guy, take up residence in the Bramford, a prestigious and fabled apartment house on the West Side of Manhattan-a place obviously modeled after the proud, gloomy old Dakota, on Central Park West. One of the fables of the Bramford concerns the prevalence of witches there...
...NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY...
Wrote one North Dakota teen: "After your article about plastic surgery, I've been doing even more wishful thinking about a nose job." She was 14. A Las Vegas 13-year-old scrawled: "I wonder where I could get in on the action." Some are just refreshingly silly: "My problem is my big teeth. They stick out like a sore nose." "Enclosed is a picture of me. My friends think I'm ugly -and I'm not sure." "It's Halloween, and I feel like a witch. Can you help...
Members of Congress have often left the exhibit with a similarly letdown feeling. "The dome is beautiful, and the moon surface and burned hulls of space craft are very good. But the rest of it is very sick," was the opinion of North Dakota Republican Mark Andrews, who added, "Tens of thousands of people a day pass through on the minitrain to see what America is like. And what do they see? They see Liz Taylor, who's not even a citizen any more. It wasn't a soft sell; it was no sale...