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...Dart of Longing Love. The author of The Cloud of Unknowing was a true man of the Middle Ages; with a healthy horror of heresy he repeatedly affirms his allegiance to the teachings and observances of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet his discipline is a highly unorthodox struggle to pierce beyond teaching and observance to the incandescent reality of God himself. "Indeed," he writes, "if it will be considered courteous and proper to say so, it is of very little value or of no value at all in this work to think about the kindness or the great worth...
...intense, square-jawed Chinese artist stared fixedly at the rice paper taped to the wall, his wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang...
...Dartmouth score which came on a pass, Moss did not figure in the play. Fullback Dave Pratt, who normally fills the role of blocking back in Dart- mouth's "V" formation, was the man who did the pass-catching. Bradley faded back, and as the Harvard defenders fanned out to the left and right to cover the ends, Pratt moved through the line down the middle to the Crimson 15-yard mark, where he gathered in Bradley's pass and then raced the remaining 15 yards to the end zone...
Located in a relatively isolated area, Cornell, through both its isolation and its large and powerful fraternity system, has come to enjoy a reputation for being an even bigger "blast weekend" college than its Ivy League brother, Dart-mouth...
That night amazed police described the weapon that had brought Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like...