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...British premiere of her circus-set movie Trapeze (TIME. June 11), Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida busted forth in London in the company of Sir Laurence Olivier, who unaccountably let his gaze stray to other things...
...governing station, strength or weakness, cleverness or dullness in learning, and all such qualities of the soul natural or acquired-what effects they will have when commingled together; so that it will be possible for him, by taking account of all these things, to make his choice: keeping his gaze fixed all the while on the nature of the soul, and considering both the worse and the better life, calling it worse if it so leads the soul that it becomes more unjust, and better if it leads the soul to become more just. All else he will leave alone...
Averting the Gaze. Under the reign of the present King's grandfather, King Abdullah, that stream had been kept under a measure of control. "I recollect so well one evening," Glubb recalls in an affectionate sidelight, "when King Abdullah was visited by a deputation of venerable-Moslem religious leaders and began to question them on religious subjects. 'Is it lawful to look at a pretty girl if you meet her on the street?' inquired His Majesty...
...arrive at that,' said the King with a sly twinkle. 'The Koran says that when you see a woman you should avert your gaze. To say you avert your gaze obviously means that you have been looking...
...University should proclaim a week of Universal Futility and end the muddlings of the snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by other cares, the student could gaze wistfully at the falling flakes, developing his soul and a death wish. Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and other notables have expounded the virtues of silence. Is the University for liberal education? Is the University really for mysticism? We have a right to know...