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...then, did these climbers come to be upon the cliffs at all? Why do these men suffer this millennial death by inches? Toynbee's answer to the problem of causation is illumined by a daring dialectic. "The play," he says, "opens with a perfect state of Yin [the Sinic term for the state of perfect passivity opposed to which is Yang, the state of ordeal and creativity...
...short, is bound to passivity by the perfection of what He has created. Further progress is impossible. Says Toynbee: ". . . The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into a new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe...
...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...funny, no, is funny, ho ho ho." Mr. Yin's answer, Lampy apologizes, digresses from this point...