Word: icarus
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...wonder if this admission will become part of Baba scripture. Considering the supreme importance Baba and his followers placed on the speaking of the Word, saying that Baba's weakness was his failure to speak it is something like saying that the weakness of wax-winger Icarus was that he flew too near...
...take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...
...Take Icarus by Breughel, for example (Auden did). Do we like it for its mythological content or for its rendering of the scene, or for what mixture of the two? Do we like it because we are able to tell our museum date some background information or because there is something ineffably beautiful about the green waves? Our familiarity with Art History or Edith Hamilton's Greck. Mythology may get in the way of our aesthetic vision...
...bunch of malfunctioning machines, ingeniously designed by Rowland Emett. Like the man who invented five-up and six-up and then gave up, Caractacus falls just short of greatness. His vacuum cleaner not only cleans the rug, it swallows it. His color television set just broadcasts wobbles. His Icarus act fizzles when the rockets tied to his back go off piecemeal and get pointed the wrong way, driving him only horizontally...
...most Americans do not fear the end of the world, they are not so easily deflected from the worry that their stable society is seriously threatened-or, to continue the Icarus imagery, that the nation's high-flying hopes might be doomed to a fiery fall. That concern weighed on many minds as the country was getting back to business after the shock of Robert Kennedy's assassination. At Harvard's class day last week, David Shelton, the senior-class chorister, chanted new lyrics to the university's old anthem. Among the lines...