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...have noticed, the game is not being broadcast this year. That's the moral of all this: that only confrontations between Ivy unbeatens--and maybe not even those--will ever find their way onto the airwaves again. The Ivies aren't dull, but they're not quite what ABC had in mind for a nice Saturday afternoon...
Compared to Esalen, Primal Screaming and similar trendy behavior therapies, Transcendental Meditation is downright dull, says Associate Editor Gerald Clarke: "You don't shout, you don't take off your clothes, you don't blurt out your sex life to a bunch of strangers." Thus Clarke, who describes himself as "superrational," decided to try it. Last April-long before he knew he would write this week's Behavior story on TM-he invested $125 and four days in TM training. "I can't claim any miracles," says Clarke, "but I write with greater ease...
...that "what is, is." Because of the confusion of names, the Maharishi is also often mistaken for the junior guru, the Maharaj Ji, 17, the pudgy, high-living "Perfect Master" of the Divine Light sect. In contrast to all of the other consciousness-raising groups, TM appears refreshingly dull and commonplace...
...only for a while. For the film then makes explicit that his motive for the robbery is to get money to buy a sex-change operation for his homosexual lover. The moronic quality of his relations with his parents and his dull-witted wife is also explored, proving to be extraordinarily unattractive and beyond most people's own experience. One tries to be sympathetic, in the nothing-hu-man-is-alien-to-me manner. But the viewer leaves the theater with that most devastating of disclaimers: This has nothing to do with...
...future white-collar work strangely resembles what used to be considered demeaning manual labor. For students of the sixties and seventies, the lonely competitive present opens out on a future which is limited to powerless work in the lower or middle reaches of corporate or government hierarchy and a dull routine of working a key punch or a slide rule (even if one happens to understand Schopenhauer thanks to a college course...