Word: hermitic
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...well-dressed man in Much Ado escapes a band of small-town hecklers by clambering to the top of a palm tree. There he turns himself into the latter-day equivalent of a 5th century pillar hermit. He promptly sheds all his clothes, capers among the fronds, and calls down unintelligible holy statements. Comments the narrator: "I could not resist a vague intellectual empathy toward the man who was now an abstraction - who had triumphantly nullified himself; who had attained the apex of an axiom." Similarly, in the title story, a "reliable, law-abiding, practical man" suddenly sloughs...
GRADUATES "I wanna be a hermit...
GRADUATE: "I wanna be a hermit...
...slender, shy man with an assembly-line haircut and an inexpensive suit. No one, however, could ignore the 27 works on display. Built of watch springs, mesh, tiny cogs and spirals, the small, precisely balanced wire constructions fluttered and danced at the slightest breath. Bearing cryptic names, such as Hermit, Flirt and L'état c'est moi, they represented virtually all of Haese's sculptural output...
...change in this longtime dependent country is not just physical but also psychological. Asia's once isolated "hermit kingdom," as it was called by 19th century missionaries, is becoming a viable, if somewhat fragile, democracy and is reaching out toward the world with more self-assurance than it has ever known. To South Viet Nam it has sent 10,000 engineers and 46,000 battle-shrewd "ROK" (Republic of Korea) troops. Through the Asian Pacific Council, it plays a leading role in promoting regional cooperation. Next week President Park will receive a U.S. economic mission, and South Korea...