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...women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
...Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were not so conceited." Just before he died, the philosopher had poisoned his two dogs, so that they would always be with him. "So," says Milles, "I represent him sitting with his dogs, in the first moment when he arrives in the new world, and they are all united...
...record men had raked Tin Pan Alley from one end (Broadway) to the other (Hollywood) to get every foreseeable hit on to wax before James Caesar Petrillo put an end to it all on Dec. 31. But who could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...
...Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After the war he got a job as clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned into a miserly hermit with a reputation for ruthless mortgage foreclosures, had been bludgeoned to death with a length of gaspipe. The murder is still unsolved...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...