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...realize, of course, that to argue aesthetics with Mr. Aubrey would be quite futile, as the producer of The Beverly Hillbillies is apparently a stranger to "the science which deduces from nature and taste the rules and principles of art" (American College Dictionary again). It would be like arguing honor with a mule. Or a cobra...
...Seidensticker puts it in his recent Japan: "They are extremely ceremonious toward those whom they know, and highly unceremonious toward others. Few urban Japanese bother to say 'Excuse me' after stepping on a person's toes or knocking a book out of his hand?provided the person is a stranger. If he is known, it is very common to apologize for offenses that have not been committed...
Journey in a Maze. Loosening-up exercises follow. One raps one's own skull with fingers and knuckles, slaps one's own body and the bodies of others from chest to ankle. One sits cross-legged opposite a selected stranger, and with eyes again closed is told by the instructor to sculpt mentally the other person's face. One is told to run one's fingers over the eyebrows, eye sockets, nose, chin and cheekbones, along his or her lips, to feel the nape of the neck, the texture of the hair. The fact of being...
There are three types of drugs used on horses- stimulants, pain-killers, and tranquilizers. Stimulants are forbidden in every state, but that, of course, does not stop their use. Typically a stranger and a horse in a small trailer arrive at the race track and gets stable permission for a racing season. For several races the horse shows no sign of life and the odds on the animal keep rising. One morning the stranger goes into the horse's stall to pet him, feed him some carrots, and give him "a little help." That afternoon the horse should...
...concerned about his whereabouts. They want to ask him some questions about his horse's surprising reversal of form. When the results of the urinalysis become known and when no one comes around to pick up the horse after the race, the stewards intensify their search for the stranger. It does no good. All a subsequent investigation usually produces is a sworn statement by the cashier at the $100 window that he remembers a "tall, dark stranger" cashing in ten tickets together worth $50,000. This sort of thing does not happen often, but it does happen. Sometimes the track...