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Drawing on such modern work as Rene Thom's mathematical catastrophe theory (to deal with discontinuous functions), as well as cybernetics and information theory, the authors almost produced a brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you alread "know" that our western rational consciousness is in some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned...
...from curious criminals. In one city, which FBI officials refuse to name, 30 organized crime figures-the Who's Who of the area's underworld-filed FOI forms. The Drug Enforcement Administration has received requests for Government information from, among others, Mafiosi Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Rene Picaretto of Buffalo, and Carmine Persico of Brooklyn...
...evening in 1976, Woodcutters Rene Vermeulen, 31, and Andre Rousseau, 30, climbed over the fence outside Legras' cottage, forced open a door and broke into the cupboard. Vermeulen , turned the radio on, and the cartridges exploded. He was thrown to the floor, his chest ripped open and his right hand blown away; Rousseau, partially blinded, went for help. Vermeulen died; Rousseau, one eye permanently damaged, was charged with attempted burglary...
Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl...
...artist as a vessel: "Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin to paint, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself or suggests itself under my brush." This consciousness of his artistic role is completely at variance with the aesthetics of bourgeois art that Rene Magritte and Jean Scutenaire decried for lending art the characteristics of a superior activity, despite its removal from the real-life concerns and activity of most people. They criticized bourgeois individualism in art because "the middle-class artis claimsto express elevated sentiments relevant only to himself," whilst most men make something...