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...great and perilous way they have entered upon, offering in deed and word an authentic Christian humanism as alternative to what they consider a cannibalizing society eating its young and destroying the physical habitat it lives on. The Government better be wary. These are lovely people, real hard-nosed good guys. They lay their lives on the line...
...create. The libidinal mystic Norman O. Brown wants to return to the unfettered pleasure seeking of infancy, where all "pansexual" desires are instantly gratified. "The real world," he writes in Love's Body, "is the world where thoughts are omnipotent, where no distinction is drawn between wish and deed." Even mental aberration can be a form of Utopia, maintains British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing (see BEHAVIOR). The schizophrenic makes a journey into self, says Laing, that is every bit as awesome as exploring a jungle or climbing Mount Everest. He goes "back and through and beyond into the experience...
...months before she let him take the course. And his black-belt instructor, Doctoral Candidate Harvey Sober, has arrived at a philosophically precise rationale for his unusual activity: "It's not murder when you kick someone assaulting you," he tells his class. "It's a mitzvah [good deed] that you know...
...existed apart from the will of man. In a story called The Meeting, two youths start quarreling over cards. They are drawn to a cabinet containing the knives of famous duelists of the past. They fight, one is killed, the other breaks down in tears over his senseless deed. Was it the weapons or the men that fought, asks Borges. It was "as though the knives were coming awake after a long sleep side by side in the cabinet. Even after their gauchos were dust, the knives-the knives, not their tools, the men-knew how to fight...
...Turkey by two students. The two asked for political asylum, claiming that they want to go to the U.S. American officials, determined to avoid a double standard for hijackers, are not likely to grant that wish, unless the students are first tried in Turkish courts. In any case, their deed could complicate the fate of the four military officers...