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...fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying you in order to remain à la mode...
Sensitivity training is in the same mode as group therapy, which is probably the most important U.S. contribution to psychotherapy so far. On a TV program called Therapy, carried by Los Angeles station KHJ, groups have been airing their neuroses since mid-July before an estimated 110,000 viewers. Each 45-minute installment is entirely authentic, culled from a video-taped therapy session two to three hours long, complete with real tears, confessions and accusations (obscenities are blipped out). These sessions, of course, are professionally guided, but their exposure on television contributes mightily to do-it-yourself analysis...
...Chimp Mode" Reentry. Earlier, the astronauts had docked a record four times, but they had used their fuel so efficiently that they had enough left to make a final and unscheduled rendezvous with the Agena. At reentry, Conrad and Gordon were relieved of their duties by a new, automatic re-entry system that the astronauts sarcastically call "the chimp mode." Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer...
MORGAN! Black comedy in the new British mode, with Vanessa Redgrave as a madcap London socialite and David Warner as her former husband who changes reality around to suit himself...
Western imagery abounds in conflict with the elements -man harnesses nature, tames the wilderness and conquers space. The Eastern mode, on the contrary, is to create a balance with nature and to identify even with nature's terrible aspects. India's mother goddess, giver of life, is also black and bloody Kali, the bringer of death and destruction. The West divides good and evil, and thinks evil can be destroyed-St. George killing the dragon, the Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together...