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Author Koestler, born a Jew but now a "seeker after truth" without religious affiliation, reports: "I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European." He descended from his plane into the fetid air of Bombay-"I had the sensation that a wet, smelly diaper was being wrapped around my head"-and picked his way through a series of visits with what he calls "contemporary saints." There was white-bearded Vinoba Bhave, marching through India in tennis shoes, seven days a week, year after year, persuading the rich to give their land...
...beast as motivated mainly by the "primary" drives of hunger, thirst and sex. Another major motivation, the scientists now argue, is a "competence" drive-the appetite to master complex relationships that is the apparent basis of problem solving. Moore's special interest is the problem in which the seeker has . no rules or fixed goals to guide him. Most notable example: the mystery of how children learn to speak their own language...
...whether the workers are coming or going. Three Negro campaigners take on the Negroes among the plant workers. In the center of it all stands a jaunty, greying, middle-sized man, his left hand leaning on a cane, his right hand outstretched in the eternal gesture of the office seeker. "How do you do," he says, pumping his hand, already swollen from handshaking. "I'm unemployed, and I want to go to work for you. My name is Paul Bagwell...
...writes with clarity, wit, and technical virtuosity. He has improved a great deal since his last appearance in print, over a year ago. He has become much more concerned with the sound of his poetry, and he has learned to use allusion unpretentiously and forcefully. Ironically, he compares his seeker of "Success's own sweet cadillac" with the seeker after truth in Marvell's "Garden" ("where fruits are ranged by lusters on each tree") and with Frost's lonely traveler ("and thinks he feels the miles he has to strive before he sleeps...
Snakes & Fish. Savely pointed out that nature is full of marvelously sensitive instruments. Rattlesnakes, for instance, find warm prey at night by means of heat-detecting organs that respond to a temperature change of one-thousandth of a degree. No man-made heat seeker can do anything like it. Neither can man-made gadgets approach the electronic virtuosity of those tropical fish that send out pulsed currents of electricity, presumably to keep them in touch with things around them. The system they use is not well understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current...