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...Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford writes: "I do not understand God, nor the way in which he works. If, occasionally, I raise my heart in prayer, it is to no God I can see, or hear, or feel. It is to a God in as cold and obscure a polar night as any non-believer has known...
Died. John Harlin, 31, a onetime dress designer for Dior and Balmain and an Air Force polar survival expert who became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest...
Before 1953, as far as the Canadian government was concerned, the dominion's 12,000 Eskimos ranked about with caribou for concern and polar bears for utility. Strewn across millions of square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak to accommodate new. That year Canada's conscience underwrote a radical new experiment to save the Eskimos by making them self-sufficient. Edith Iglauer's book tells of the leap, "literally for their lives," into the modern world...
...says Freud's description of child-rearing has applied to much of Peace Corps training: "We train them for the tropics and send them to the polar...
...shot some terrific footage of a walrus hunt, some beautiful quiet splices of life in an igloo, some hilarious takes in which an Eskimo ate a phonograph record and got bounced on his behind by a seal. All these reels he assembled in a 70-minute film, a polar pastoral volted with the same vitality that sizzles in the Eskimo...