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...Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu word signifying "the ultimate religion...
...together also means good, cool. 2) from "Three Blind Mice." 3) see note nine. 4) Alice (in Wonderland) shrinking and shrunk. 5) from the asylum? 6) walrus's face is long. 7) The eggman is H. C. Earwicker in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. He is the cosmic father of man and is symbolic of the oosphere. The oosphere contained the universe at the beginning before it was broken. His initials stand for "Here Comes Everybody". The eggman is everybody. 8) Everybody is an eggman because we're all progenitors...
...Indicating another way that military projects can help academic research, the State University of New York last week bought two $8,500,000 surplus Atlas missile silos for $667 each. SUNY will use the silos to study the effects of cosmic rays on the aging of fruit flies and white rats. The Government has sold eight other surplus missile sites to educational institutions including Kansas State and Colorado State universities...
...same shop-worn devil but now, in this century, no longer served by solitary, gutted souls but by an institution. There is so little poetry in the CIA, so much that is pedestrian and mean that no one but George could dare to attribute cosmic force to it. He carried it off though. He always had a cigarette in his mouth when he said it and tilted his head back waiting for the smoke to curl up over his face and the light to shine on the moistening high forehead. George was very conscious of the shameless theatricality...
...done, however, is to create imaginative visions and recollectons within the mind of the doomed slave and yet present the poignancy of the recent massacres and the impending execution. Styron is a great stylist and a perfectionist, but he certainly is not guilty of trying to present a cosmic view of the South or the declining prosperity of Virginia Tidewater. Criticisms of Styron's use of Nat's memory to describe landscapes are unfounded. The author's sensitivity towards the setting adds much richness to the novel. In the end, the reader is only exhausted by the many and deep...