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...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
...that we were and we are victims of alienation, that feeling of emotional distance from a world in which we must constantly face something ugly in everything positive, something disappointing in everything successful. A typical reaction to alienating situations is to somehow redefine the situation as not contradictory. The simplest way to do that is to eliminate the upsetting scenes from one's life. We learn to look at life single-mindedly and edit out the bad footage in our vision and perceptions. We learn not to see certain contradictions. For instance, we learn not to see, not to notice...
...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
Form and Love. Gibney explains how the Japanese manage to "alchemize ceremony into substance" because they are capable of dignifying the simplest acts of daily living with form and love...
...serves a special purgative purpose. Said William Taylor, executive director of the Travelers Aid International Service: "I think people are responding to the feeling of responsibility that our participation in the war helped make these children orphans. Some would call it guilt." President Ford put the matter in the simplest, starkest terms. "This is the least we can do," he said. "And we will do much, much more...