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...Your piece on Martha Mitchell [Nov. 30] was quite amusing, but you failed to spell out one thing. What happens when the size of the mouth exceeds that of the brain to such an extent that one completely overpowers the other? I would say it's idiocy over intellect by a wide margin, which is precisely what is happening in Washington today...
...bird becomes a metaphor of the mind and its power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...
...start of the second half, the Crimson pecked away at the B.C. lead, even though it blew two three-on-one fast breaks and turned the ball over several times. The Eagles hit a cold shooting spell, and sophomore guard James Brown hit a hot streak of seven straight points to put Harvard back in the game...
...some companies-like R.B. Jarts Co. of Fort Edward, N.Y., whose only product for twelve years has been the lawn darts-the law could spell ruin. "I'd rather be hit by a lawn dart than by a horseshoe," bristles Jarts President Robert Barnett. "Kids can hurt themselves with bicycles and archery and rifles too. Why aren't they included...
...only pain and sorrow. In this respect we are reliving the history of earlier imperial systems. We have had many opportunities to escape this trap and still do today. Failure to take advantage of these opportunities, continued submission to indoctrination and indifference to the fate of others, will surely spell disaster for much of the human race...