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...descended from the Mount and about to chastise the Israelites for dancing about their golden calf. Rather, Freud read it as showing Moses deciding not to hasten after the mob lest he lose the Tablets of the Law This he called "the highest mental achievement . . . struggling successfully against an inward passion for the sake of a cause." Freud was often plagued by doubt about the value of his work, but when he remembered how tolerant he had been of apostates to his own creed, he could feel like Moses...
Beyond this serene-looking inner box throbs the metropolitan life of Peking itself. Leading off from Kublai's broad roads, which checkerboard the city, are warrens of hutungs, narrow lanes of deep dust or mud lined by windowless walls of inward-facing houses, and named in keeping with their history: Ditch of a Thousand People, Dog's Neck Lane, Human Hair Lane, Chase the Thief Lane...
...Ungodly & Ungainly." As Le Corbusier's chapel in rough concrete and white plaster began to take form atop Haut Lieu, Ronchamp villagers threw up their hands in horror. The Walls, instead of rising straight upwards, sloped inward or outward like sets for a surrealist movie. The ceiling sagged like a tent ceiling. The main church tower, looking like an ocean liner's funnel, and two lesser towers served only as light wells for chapels within...
...Fisher stood before the court of the Sultan of Turkey, as anomalous as a pair of shoes in a mosque, and told its zealous Moslem members about the virtues of Christianity. Her presence there, alone and defenseless, bore witness to the compelling nature of the Quaker "concern," a strong inward urge to take some action to meet a certain situation. Mary Fisher satisfied her concern, was respectfully heard and allowed to depart in peace...
Rise of Apra. Can Peru go on indefinitely with its 2,000,000 coastal population in the 20th century and its mountain people still in the 16th? Yes, say the country's conservatives, who center around the so-called "Forty Families"-the old, cultured, inward-looking class who own the coastal haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named...