Word: nihilism
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...faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House at 21 South Street. Pegasus, the winged horse, has been carved into a wooden throne chair, featured above The Advocate's motto: Dulce est Periculum. There is also another: Veritas nihil veretur, which means (I read a translation of it the introduction to this anthology) "Truth fears nothing...
...arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically from each side. And for a few indoor scenes, there are set up symmetrically a pair of folding screens, on each of which--in a cute reference to the play's title--is lettered the motto "Exnihilo nihil...
...free and a strict form: the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor and the Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. The latter fugue is a fine specimen of the many Bach fugues that are first-rate works wrought from an unpromising theme. Bach disproved the maxim, Ex nihilo nihil...
This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...
...just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley's screaming hits, in which the key line, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," would come out "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus...