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...such major problems as a stagnant economy, overpopulation, food shortages and the disintegration of her own Congress Party, would dearly have loved to sidestep the entire issue. In today's India, however, the absurd and obscure seem frequently to become major affairs of state. Once they got a fix on the island, the opposition parties, led by the nationalist Jana Sangh, demanded that Indira send troops and warships to hold all 160 acres of it for India...
...long periods of time. This juxtaposition of speed and deliberation gives the dream that jagged pace which we recall in first waking moments. Desire, I have argued, has speed. Within each scene, however, Hunter achieves slowness by letting the camera, as if two joints high, revel in the immediate, fix joyfully on shapes, colors, a green stick of incense, a miniature toy horse on wheels, the rise of bubbles in near boiling water...
...nine who said he had taken LSD "fairly frequently"--talked at length about what made him retreat to drugs. Planes of talk range from functional, housekeeping exchanges through gossip, banter, ideological disputes, to metaphysical discussions, he said, and it is not difficult for two people to fix themselves at the same point on this scale of conversational levels. But there is another dimension to communication, where mutuality is almost impossible to achieve, he said. That is intimacy, an "ultimate intimacy not obtained by shared confessions of guilts, ambitions, Oedipus complexes, or secrets," but by a mental unification analogous to sexual...
...this point the case-aides need to have explained to them that they are important, that the patients have been rejecting them, lying to them, or whatever. And about this time a depressed mood settles over the group. They have discovered that they're not going to fix the patients in 12 or 16 or 18 visits once a week. Here the group really comes to grips with itself. Is it going to be a group? Is it going to survive this realization, this destruction? How meaningful is it? Why did they get into this thing? It's a difficult...
When Edwards heard that Jim Hines, Texas' world record-holding sprinter, still planned to run, he growled: "I hear he wants to play pro football. Some cats in Texas have personally said they'd fix it so he'd be on sticks if he's crazy enough to run in that meet." Hines withdrew, and so did Olympic High Jumper John Thomas, after receiving telephoned threats...