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...hand at Wembley Stadium hoping to see Henry Cooper, 29, button the Louisville Lip. Not that anyone really expected it. Cooper might be the British and Empire heavyweight champion, but he was older by eight years and outweighed by 21 Ibs.; then, too, there was all that tender scar tissue around Cooper's battered eyes. "I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay was so brash, so, well, so American ("That cripple," snorted Cassius...
...Shaped Room. The plot is frayed from use and old age, the characters are mostly Characters, and the sound track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after...
...feel that luxury is as indispensable as bread." But the Chinese are embarrassed by their past and consider it fit only for tourists. They scoff at Kazantzakis' bourgeois concern for beauty. "I hate beauty because it dries up hearts," a Chinese tells him. "Your heart, so tender in appearance, is dry and cruel, like the hearts of all artists. You do not think of human suffering, but of the expression on men's faces and the intonations of their cries when they suffer. We men of action . . . fight to put an end to their suffering...
...Triads and Trinities And Other Like Affinities EXPERIENCE MEDIATOR PRINCIPLE sensation fact rule id ege superege quality individuality universality being existence essence tough-minded pragmatic mediator tender-minded once-born seeker of a universal religion twice-born healthy-minded seeker of emotional maturity sick-souled mother child father Holy Ghost Son (as historical figure) Father affection cognition conation (will, material artist form aesthetics metaphysics ethics spirit reason law Instinct organism habit
Just as James divides thinkers into the tough-minded and the tender-minded, he categorizes religious believers as healthy-minded or sick-souled. It is with the religion of healthy-mindedness--ranging from the creeds of professional mind healers to the poetry of Whitman--that he deals first. "It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of a sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think...