Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...MAIN object of an evening at Pops-at least in theory-is to hear the music. The Heliconian strains of this celestial band flow sweetly to the ears of the listener, enveloping him in a rapture which has led more loquacious critics to rampant excess of sesquipedalian verbiage. The night I attended, however, must have been the Muse's night off, for the music seemed more a product of Hades than Halicon...
...does her father feel about her appearing nude in the San Francisco company of Oh! Calcutta!? Well, said Louise Hatch, 24, the show is a "tongue-in-cheek parade of our sexual hangups"; and after all, "he feels that people who object to the show for moral reasons, ought to object to things like the war in Viet Nam instead." "I am not uptight about it at all," said her father, Episcopal Bishop Robert Hatch of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. "I am glad she has a chance to express herself...
Madly Christian. Cobb faults modern philosophy for drawing too sharp a metaphysical distinction between man and his environment. Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Sartre-none has granted the subhuman world "a reality such that it can be the object of man's concern," he writes. Theology has followed suit. A weak faith in the value of creation tends to undermine belief in the Creator, and vice versa. Man is left only with his self-interest, which, however enlightened, will not provide sufficient motivation for ecological survival...
...object of all this learned scorn was The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which argues that Jesus was not a man but a hallucinogenic mushroom, Amanita muscaria; that the New Testament was concocted by addicts of the mushroom as a code for their mystical lore; and that the God of Jews and Christians is ultimately nothing more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University...
...those with sight to refrain from touching. "There's a big difference between the way blind and sighted people touch things," said one museum official. "The hands of the blind come down gently and slowly, like butterflies, while sighted people plunk their hands onto an object...