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...declining years of the 20th century nothing stays simple. In New Jersey deer hunting has been bureaucratized. Any hunter caught with liquor on his breath by a game warden is likely to lose his license. Applicants for licenses must show that they have passed a course in gun safety, during which they are drilled in such elementary but often overlooked things as unloading before climbing a fence and holding fire when they cannot clearly see the quarry. Hunters in New Jersey must wear at least 200 sq. in. of bright orange material on their clothes; they may not hunt within...
...flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony hemisphere above them gleams with fire: the planets, their satellites and some 4,000 stars begin marching across the heavens toward day break. The audience sucks in its breath. A child grabs the arm of the teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that the skin of the dome has been silently folded back to reveal the universe. There is the illusion of floating weightlessly out into space, secure...
...there would be group "sharing" and mass "intimacy." Still, the participants are people who, en masse, become as obedient, as malleable as a class of terrified kindergarteners. They submit themselves with amazing unanimity to a series of silly exercises ordered from on high. Everybody stand up! Take a deep breath! Massage your leg! Jump up and down three times! Give the laugh of power! Huh-uuugh! Fabulous! Pick another partner! A, you tell B what you like about the person, and if you don't know the person, make...
...breath I hate...
Simple--Just get up every morning at 6:30 and practice for six or seven hours (with your internationally known coach). Do a year's worth of school work during the three months of spring when you're away from the skating rink. Learn to live and breath the rigors of figures, and in eight or ten years you might be on your way. Then again, you might...