Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this ambitious and often amusing novel. Old Pro John Hersey has a deeper purpose than picturing the humiliation of being young, however. Combining the sound reporting skill he employed in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall with the wild imagination he showed in The Marmot Drive and White Lotus, he has tried to explore the collegiate mind, to understand why today's undergraduates are so hard to communicate with, so susceptible to aimlessness, boredom and rebellion...
...tatsu's Waterfowls in Lotus Pond is also a kakemono, or hanging scroll, mounted on silk, that shows the development of Japanese art into the early 17th century. Its impressionistic look stems from the artist's technique, known as tarashikomi, the brushing on of successive tones of ink while the underlying ones are wet. Appropriately for "bird's-eye" perspective, the bird below may be smaller than the lotus blossoms above, but the viewer reads it as floating in the foreground...
...about an ancient Pharaoh's tomb containing dried seeds that sprouted when planted and watered-thousands of years after they were first interred. The truth of the tale has yet to be proved, but common chickweed seeds have germinated after lying dormant for more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content falls to about 10% of normal...
...Rise of the Lotus-Eaters...
Both movements, the logicians as well as the lotus-eaters, appear to do away with what has usually been considered the very heart of philosophy: metaphysics, the attempt to comprehend through reason the nature of reality. In The Conditions of Philosophy, a current examination of the discipline, Mortimer Adler charges that the analytic thinkers abandon "first-order questions" that metaphysics used to ask-such as the nature of being, causation, free will-and are concerned mostly with second-order problems of method. The existentialists, on the other hand, continue to ask large-size questions, but because of their man-centered...