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...more young people undertake the professional study of literature; fewer and fewer like to read. It is my impression that the act of reading, which used to be an appetite and a passion, is now thought to be rather 'infra dig' in people of intelligence; students make it a habit to settle on a very few authors, or, if possible, one author, whom, they undertake to comprehend entirely and to make their own; or to wait until they can conceive a 'problem' suitable to their talents before they read...
Panic & Deals. Actually, the problem is all too real right now for thousands of high-school students. In their panic to get into college-and in their wild search for the best scholarship deals-today's youngsters have acquired the habit of applying to as many schools as possible. One Connecticut boy, for instance, was able to choose between Amherst, which offered him no scholarship. Bates, which offered $600, Wesleyan with a $500 offer, Holy Cross with $700, and Yale with $1,250. Another boy sent Princeton an irate letter after he was rejected, pointed out that...
...finds. Psychoanalysts, says Dr. Suzuki, his tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep." The main difficulty Westerners have with Zen, says Suzuki, is their habit of thinking dialectically-either-or. sub ject-object, positive-negative. Zen sees only one instead of two. "Westerners analyze things," says Dr. Suzuki, "but in the East we see a thing all at once and with our whole bodies, instead of just our minds...
...humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place of a 'poor relation' . . . But such an attitude cannot provide man with a reason for his existence-much less can it provide...
...hottest young trainer at the race tracks this winter is Allen Jerkens, a tall, diffident man of 26 who feeds his horses olive oil and has an enviable habit of turning second-rate platers into stake-race winners. When Florida's Hialeah opened last week, the two-buck bettors made Jerkens' "Big Horse," Admiral Vee, a 3-to-5 favorite. It was a little too early in the season to be sure the chestnut was ready, but the horseplayers knew that a Jerkens horse would always give them a run for their money...