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...were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy, and mixing, in similar proportions, body, altar and stone...
...bank's directors, he was tired and felt as he had prior to "a previous emotional altercation." A light rain on the windshield mixed the city with the sky, making the outline of the buildings nearly indistinguishable and their colors a forbidding grey. He mumbled of Conrad, of Zen and motorcycle maintenance, of his friend Robert Pirsig and his aircraft. I opened the door at the air terminal and turned to shake his hand and say "Thank you. You've been incredibly kind." But he turned with a miserable smile, "Tuan Jim," he half-mumbled and half-laughed. I slammed...
Like his campaign, Brown's stance on the issues strikes many as confusing. Leave aside the commitment to Zen and the "Linda Ronstadt number." Brown takes positions many label unusual. He advocates placing private citizens on the board of directors of the major oil companies and laying out billions for a new American space program. Although he opposes development of the MX missile, nobody can quite find a place for Brown on the foreign policy scale. For the record, he pictures himself a social liberal and fiscal conservative; he loudly supports a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and favors...
...first rule of politics is to be different," a veteran Brown aide remarked in 1976, when the campaign emphasized the exotic in his personality, capitalizing on people's interest in his outrageous lifestyle and philosophy. The years of misty evocations of Zen consciousness, bachelor pad living, and inviting royalty to brown-bag lunches have taken their toll, however--the image of unorthodoxy that was Brown's greatest asset in 1976 has now become his chief liability. Brown's campaign staff works furiously to dispel the conception of the governor as a "California flake...
Dean W. Currie, Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs, agrees that the interactional case approach is more effective than straight lecturing in internalizing knowledge. "It's a Zen Buddhist-like belief that there is wisdom that can be learned but can't be told," Currie says. Students gain that wisdom by closely involving themselves with the cases presented, and actively participating in discussions that locate and solve problems, he adds...