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...public cannot be asked to swallow, without questioning, the financing of research that has been called both the hope for mankind and a shortcut to doomsday...
There is something touching in the innocence of a man who, as Wolff explains, thought that because madness and genius are often inextricably related, he could take a "shortcut to genius" by cultivating madness. It is questionable whether Crosby even succeeded at madness. He was never quite comfortable in the life he had chosen for himself, and was always making earnest resolutions to reform. During his cult-of-the-sun phase, which succeeded his Wilde/Huysmans phase, Crosby traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper...
...fathom. The Dalai Lama is, after all, believed to be the very reincarnation of the Buddha in Buddhism's Tibetan variant. To see him during one of his rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...
...pleased with the progress these kids have made," Park said. "It's frustrating to lose, but there is no shortcut except experience. We just need to win a couple of games in a row. In another year, we'll be right back in the thick of things...
Crackling Intelligence. This is the risk that most sentimental entertainment runs: touching the heart while by passing the mind. Author Russell Hoban, 50, does not take that shortcut...