Word: giving
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...little known book called Mount Analogue. The book--unfinished at Daumal's death--describes the quest to find the mountain that connects Earth and Sky, that is, to know God. So wonderfully is the allegory worked into the story that it is difficult to find a passage that will give you a sense of the book. But here is a little poem that Daumal wrote in a letter to his wife...
...dead because I lack desire;/ I lack desire because I think I possess;/ I think I possess because I do not try to give./ In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;/ Seeing you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;/ Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing/ Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;/ In desiring to become, you begin to love...
...pitcher Dave DeWitte lined a bunt past first baseman Pete Bernhard. After a wild pitch by Nickens put both runners in scoring position, Lee Bristol drove Compton home with a perfect squeeze-play bunt. While DeWitte broke for the plate, Minot Cleveland lain down a second perfect bunt to give the Techmen a 2-0 lead...
...that he was an Arab and Kennedy liked the Israelis) are reasons we ascribe to Sirhan. We have to have explanations; that is why we cannot admit that Oswald did it. We have to have an explanation for the 300 people seizing the building. By demanding an explanation, we give them the enormous power of giving it to us. And for the next two weeks we are in a state of turmoil, trying to answer the riddles that they offer us, because we know, since they "seized" the building, that the riddles are incredibly important to solve...
Harvard can lead the nation, as it has in the past. The near unanimous vote of the Faculty on Thursday should give the President and Fellows the backing they need to end the University's conventional ties to ROTC and to find new ways of affirming Harvard's responsibility to the national defense more in keeping with our times. I cannot presume to guess what those ways will be, and I can only hope that the intent of the Faculty to limit ROTC to an ordinary extracurricular activity will be clearer by virtue of this letter. Jerome S. Bruner Professor...