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...during different hours of the day, are his subjects, and these basic elements offer nearly limitless possibilities for orchestration. Controlling the placement of the terms ("taking hills, put them together, cutting out a piece of water,") is the aim of providing visual enjoyment. In order to be able to impart pleasure, the picture must be structured, and structured to be decorative. Mr. Feild's fond sensitivity experiments with the swift change in atmosphere characteristic of the Lake District and the effect this tension between light and shadow has on a landscape's face. Predicating this freedom "to play and monkey...
...teaching a new reaction (to seek light). Most investigators doubt that a single memory molecule will be found, but they believe that molecular biology will eventually reveal the secret of memory. If so, the blue-sky possibilities are limitless. It might be possible to develop "knowledge pills" that would impart instant skill in French, tennis, music or math. McConnell jokingly proposes another idea: "Why should we waste all the knowledge a distinguished professor has accumulated simply because he's reached retirement age?" His solution: the students eat the professor...
...laments one congregant. "Now this." Siegel's critics among his fellow rabbis are not so much disturbed by his portrait of a vacuous congregation as his own passive performance. "A rabbi," argues young Orthodox Rabbi Steven Riskin of Manhattan, "is foremost the educator of his community. He must impart values and represent them in his own life." Yet Siegel confesses that he "doesn't know" why he is a rabbi: he chooses to stay one because, among other things, "I have no place else to go." There is also, he reveals, an income of more than...
Such thriving movements as Avn Rand's Objectivism or L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology impart a messianic spirit to the new Euro-and Anglo-American militancy. Reports of the death of the West may be premature. Read the book, Imperium, by Francis Parker Yockey and wonder if the greatest Western Empire is yet to come. In the grand manner. At any event, it certainly seems that the easeful, gentlemanly days of church-state separation are over...
...citizen, Chi stoutly declares: "My skin is Chinese. My eyes are Chinese. My heart runs only for the Chinese." An A student in physical education, she plans to return to Taiwan to coach track after a year or two of graduate study. She says that she would like to impart the "religious feeling" of running. "I have reached the point," she says, "where if I lose a race, I figure God doesn't want me to win. So I pray to him, saying 'God, whatever I've done, please forgive me.' If I should win, well...