From:    Albertus Magnus                        Area: Metaphysical
To:      All                                    29 Aug 94 04:11:38
Subject: The Week in Death: August 12-18        UpdReq 

 QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 "May 21
 "Yesterday a man came in with his personality on the stretcher
  after getting shrapnel to the head.  We have a zombie now.
  A woman buried alive in a mass grave dug herself out after
  12 hours.  She's pretty freaked out.  I would be.
 "May 25
 "Bunkered in today.  Mortar hit Red Cross compound next door,
  killing two and wounding five.  Hospital staff leaves and wounded
  pour in.  Fifty more today.  Putting them everywhere on the ground
  now.  No more tents.  Sixty out of one hundred staff have left.
  Twenty cases to operate on but tomorrow will be another day of
  shelling.  Phillip, our four-pack-a-day Swiss director, reassured
  us today that we were =not= a political target, only in a bad
  geographic place.  Politically correct, geographically incorrect."
     -- John Sundin, a Red Cross volunteer surgeon in Rwanda;
        from correspondence reprinted in "Harper's" (August, 1994)
 THE WEEK IN DEATH (August 12-August 18)
 Paul Anderson (61), athlete.  Anderson was a completely unknown
 weightlifter before the first U.S.-Soviet athletic competition in
 1955.  The American champion was injured, and the 340-pound, 5'9''
 Anderson was inserted in his place at the last minute.  The Soviet
 audience laughed when he asked for a weight of 402.4 pounds, 30
 pounds over the record, but he lifted it.  During the 1956
 Olympics Anderson won the gold with a new Olympic record of 413
 pounds, despite having a 103  temperature.  In 1957, he lifted a
 table laden with 6,270 pounds of weight, a feat never duplicated.
 He retired to a barnstorming career giving inspirational talks
 and performing feats of strength.
 Elias Canetti (89), author.  The 1981 Nobelist in Literature,
 Canetti's focus was on authoritarianism and mobs.  He must have
 had some true insight into the phenomenon because his first book,
 "Auto-da-fe," was banned in Nazi Germany.  His ``Crowds and
 Power'' explored the allure of dictators, and probably brought
 him to the attention of the Nobel committee.
 Alice Childress (77), novelist/playwright.  Her best-known work is
 "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich," about a 13-year-old heroin
 addict.  Her frank use of language and willingness to examine
 controversial subject matter on occasion raised controversies of
 their own.  In the 1970s, a Long Island school district tried to
 ban "A Hero," and for years she was unable to get produced her
 play on interracial marriage, "Wedding Band."
 Jerome Minskoff (78), producer.  Produced "Can-Can," "Noises Off,"
 and "Sweet Charity" at his Minskoff Theatre in Times Square,
 along with several films, including "Tell Them Willy Boy is Here."
 Ernst Pawel (74), biographer.  "The Nightmare of Reason," his
 biography of Franz Kafka, won the Alfred Harcourt Award.
 Jack Sharkey (91), athlete.  In 1932, Sharkey won the heavyweight
 title from Max Schmeling, and lost it in his next fight, one year
 later, against somebody named Prima Carnera.
     Two of the most enduring quotes from boxing referred to
 Sharkey: In a 1927 fight against Jack Dempsey, Dempsey hit
 Sharkey low.  When Sharkey turned to complain to the ref, Dempsey
 hit him so hard that when Sharkey woke up, he thought it was the
 day before and the fight had yet to occur.  When asked about
 blind-siding his opponent, Dempsey said "What was I supposed to
 do?  Mail him a letter?" It was Dempsey's last victory.
     In his title fight against Schmeling, Sharkey won in a split
 decision, causing Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to scream "We
 wuz robbed!"
 Vazgen I (85), the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
 Billy Wilson (59), director, choreographer.  His
 Broadway shows included "Bubbling Brown Sugar" and
 "Eubie."  He also choreographed the kid show "Zoom."
 (The Week in Death is by Brian Santo, [B.SANTO@genie.geis.com].)
... The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. * Hubbard


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From:    Albertus Magnus                        Area: Metaphysical
To:      The Black Dog                          30 Aug 94 01:28:14
Subject: Re: Metaphysics?                       UpdReq 

*** Quoting The Black Dog to All ***
TBD> I thought this area was for 'magazine type articles' ?
TBD> The last 100 or so posts haven't been at all interesting to
TBD> me as a practising magician wanting to keep abreast of new
TBD> developments.
And that's what you've seen. If they haven't been interesting to you 
personally, tough. I get netmail complaints if I don't post the TWID.
Personally, if you haven't found this echo interesting, I heartily suggest you 
forego your magical endeavors and check to see if you have a pulse.
     .\lbertus .\.\agnus


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