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...watching a quiet child who wants, or even needs, to be alone, there is pressure on the child to participate. We criticize an introvert child for not being outgoing enough ... Of course, to an extent there must be a limit to dreaming, but would anyone pull out a flower to see if it grows right...
From a lofty, flower-decked platform in New Delhi last week, India's Jawaharlal Nehru handed down a contemptuous rebuke to his own country's Communists. "Anti-India, antipeople, anti-progress," he called them, "dazzled by Russia and China, but ignorant of India. They are without moorings in the land of their birth. They are pledged to a policy of creating mental and physical conflicts. They indulge in a cult of disruption...
...team from the New York Medical College (Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals) submitted an encouraging report on longevity to the A.M.A. meeting in Miami (see above). The aging process (marked by hardening of the arteries, high levels of fatty substances in the blood and dilatation of the aorta) tends to reverse itself after 60, the researchers found, and anybody who survives the "threshold age" by reaching 75 has a good chance of going on to reach the 100 mark...
Rising up from one side of his villa is a white tower from which he can gaze meditatively at Havana and the sea, or at his own domain-the finca's 13 acres, including flower and truck gardens, fruit trees, seven cows (which provide all the household's milk and butter), a large swimming pool, a temporarily defunct tennis court. In the 60-foot-long living room, heads of animals Hemingway shot in Africa stare glassy-eyed from the walls. But most imposing of all are Hemingway's books. He consumes books, newspapers and random printed matter...
...will say about another: "And you should see her genuflections." The abbot on the phone burbles to his opposite number: "Well, Abbess, and how's the old blood pressure?", while a fierce little monk clutching a horsewhip snarls: "Who's pinched my relic of The Little Flower?" Most of Brother Choleric's cartoons are taken from real life. Says he: "One doesn't have to think up jokes in a monastery...