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...yesterday evening the buzzards were still sihouetted against the stormy sky seeking other prey. The Harvard soccer team came out running yesterday and did not stop until they had posted a 3-1 victory over the Woodsmen...
When the victims of rapists range from toddlers to grandmothers, it should become apparent that it is not a "teasing female" that falls prey to the rapist but instead a female who happens to be accessible and appears to be vulnerable that becomes an object that can easily be overpowered to vent displaced feelings of anger and hostility...
...Eskimo sculptors. The belief that a spirit exists in every living thing implies that in order to fashion an image one must first understand exactly what sort of spirit moves the subject. By the same token, art initially served a practical function: it was believed that by symbolically capturing prey (one captured a portion of its spirit by painting or sculpting it) the chances of success in the field were much greater. What may appear pure ignorance and superstition to Western man has produced some of the most expressive works of art known. The collection of Eskimo sculpture...
...heavy, clumsy and coarse-featured, but oddly uncertain, despite their solidarity. Likewise, a carved hunter seems very much at the mercy of his surroundings. His axe raised and face contorted, he twists, almost Cubist, with a tremendous tension that must be a mixture of determination to kill his prey and fear, always fear. From warm and comfortable libraries it is easy to exclaim at the savagery of such an existence. It is harder to imagine what it must really feel like living there...
Health studies have long shown that single, widowed and divorced people are far likelier prey to disease than married folk. Some examples: the coronary death rate among widows between 25 and 34 is five times that of married women in the same age group. At all ages, the divorced are twice as likely as the married to develop lung cancer or suffer a stroke. Among divorced white males, cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common, and tuberculosis ten times more common...