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What is fascinating about a show of this sort is that it is a sociological fossil pit. The American hero (Brad Blaisdell) is an untainted saint of ineptitude. His French rival (Michael Tartel) is a bounder of dashing expertise. The girl that both of them vie for is a strawberry blonde (Kimberly Farr) with a pragmatic eye for betting on a long shot. There is a marvelously agile dance number called The Tickle Toe, and a few ribs are tickled as well...
...Stephen Saint John Hall came to Harvard in the summer of 1971 as part of President Bok's original team of vice presidents. He was 36 years old, director of operations support for the Sheraton division of ITT, and dissatisfied with corporate America, when he got the call to take over Harvard's administrative side...
...Stephen Saint John Hall came to Harvard in the summer of 1971 as part of President Bok's original team of vice presidents. He was 36 years old, director of operations support for the Sheraton division of ITT, and dissatisfied with corporate America, when he got the call to take over Harvard's administrative side...
...Parisian jeweler. This astonishing object, whose form shifts like water in the twining reflections of silver flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame sans Merci-enigmatic as a sphinx, cruelly indifferent as a Byzantine empress, wearing the features of the Divine Sarah and the aggressive glitter of a vintage Cadillac fender...
Spiritual Exercises. Howls of religious outrage may also greet Bharati's description of the mystical personality. Conventional wisdom in most traditions, says Bharati, assumes that a man who has looked into the eye of God must be a saint or a sage. Rubbish, he replies. "The zero-experience cannot generate sainthood [or] wisdom ... any more than orgasm can generate good citizenship ... The mystic who was a stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes...