Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. In his second novel, the author of The Painted Bird coolly describes a series of acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge that combine to form a shocking picture of a pathological mind...
...story, "Zen, with a Difference" [Oct. 18], regarding the ritualistic activity at the Tassajara Monastery in California, makes any knowledgeable Zennist smile, since Zen has no form, no ritual, no church, no creed, no "Bible," no authority or priestcraft administering it and is devoid of images and the adoration of them. It has as its main objective the concentration of the mind-without lotus positions, kneeling, closeting, bending, stooping or praying. This results in the person's becoming more aware of life, all life, and the process by which it flows without beginning...
...ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with it a duty to weigh the consequences, to consider the axiom that inaction is a form of action. A single vote for President is so minuscule among millions that hectoring any individual to vote may seem futile...
...destruction of treasured landmarks and favorite spots. The good small restaurants that were the city's pride are being torn down, to be replaced by 15-minute-service counters in skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street area, where building activity and crowding are most intense, lines form in front of hot-dog carts at lunchtime, and a sign in a Broad Street bookstore reads: "Please-no browsing from 12 to 2." Says Architect Percival Goodman: "Size can mean healthy growth or cancer. In New York, it's become cancer...
...straw poll is intended to be completely open, although CNPA had voted in September to direct a write-in campaign for McCarthy, Sterne said. The courts' failure to make write-ins clearly legal doomed that effort and it was too late to form a fourth party, Sterne added...