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According to the axiom that it's darkest right before dawn, a huge sunbeam should encompass the Indoor Athletic Building Monday morning. Harvard's weekend basketball hopes are about as dim as the overhead lighting in the antiquated sports complex...
...still fond of children's books, but feels that what children need in books today is not "blobs and treacle but heroic nourishment, a sense of wonder, and pictures with enough texture and detail to be worth poring over again and again." He remembers "getting up at dawn, creeping into the room where N.C. Wyeth's Scribner's Classics were kept, and long before I could read, brooding over the pictures in Robinson Crusoe, The Boy 's King Arthur and Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff...
...kiddies the culmination of the Yuletide season is the hysteria of opening presents during the early dawn of the 25th of December. For the parents the culmination of Christmas is early January when all those convenient layaway bills come due. The only vestige of spirit that seems to pervade Christmas these days is the joy of paying off the last charge account bill or seeing a toy actually last in one piece from one Christmas to the next...
...human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world. "I saw them cross the twilight of an age," Aurobindo wrote in his 24,000-line epic poem Savitri, "the sun-eyed children of a marvelous dawn...
Feisal must be the world's hardest-working King. Like many executives, he suffers from ulcers, which have forced him to pare his workday from 18 hours to 14 hours. When asked about his health, he sometimes replies: "Still living." He rises at dawn, prays-one of five daily prayer sessions-and rides in the front seat of a Chrysler New Yorker from his unostentatious villa to his small, paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous...