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...object of the camera's attention soon moves to a close-up of ecstatic neophytes screaming to their follow trainees that "I am here because I want to change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general...
...real University is not a material object. It is not a group of buildings that can be defended by the police. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
Strange, I thought feminism had done a lot more for me as a person than enabling me to be regarded as a sex object after...
...hero. Benoit Kaufman, a Romany who survives the concentration camps as a boy to become a successful protraitist of the rich and famous. Yet, unable to shake his past. Ben finally dedicates himself to avenge all those men, women, and children who were shot, gassed and incinerated. The specific object of his wrath is a fellow gypsy, a former Nazi collaborator who saved his own life by participating in the slaughter of others...
After tentatively approving the report, which ACSR members will have a chance to read fully and object to in the next day or so, the committee vetoed four shareholder resolutions including one that seeks to force Occidental Petroleum to end all trade with "Communist-bloc" nations...