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...inside a bulletproof glass booth. The idea was to protect him from a possible assassin in the courtroom-and it inspired Actor Robert Shaw to write a successful play called The Man in the Glass Booth. Now American jurists are considering a similar booth, made of plastic. Here, however, the idea is to protect the court from the defendant...
Like Teen-Agers. Previous attempts to reproduce the effects of human smoking in the laboratory had failed because animals could not be taught to inhale. At Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, Dr. William G. Cahan devised an ingenious method of inserting a plastic tube through an opening in a beagle's windpipe and pumping in smoke drawn from cigarettes. The animals were harnessed in an open box and, after a few weeks of gradual conditioning (at first, many coughed and retched like teen-agers with their first drags), showed signs of addiction. They inhaled voluntarily and appeared...
...Americans clamber into a zebra-striped minibus. Whisked off to a government-operated park, they spend the day shooting everything that moves-with cameras. On the way back, they stop to shop for souvenirs: Masai warriors' spears (forged in Birmingham, England) and "elephant hair" bracelets (actually made of plastic) that are supposed to guard the wearer against attack by a frenzied pachyderm. That is safari, 1970 style, the newest travel mania...
...having to talk to the long-haired hippies who circulate throughout the theatre before the show begins, trying to communicate with straight adult society. His wife elbows him gently in the ribs, saying, "No dear, those aren't real hippies, they're members of the cast." He makes a plastic attempt at amused politeness, since "being tolerant" these days is more hip than Hair...
...deception that we know who we are and what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most loving. spontaneous. "together"-we occasionally glimpse into the fourth room, only to be driven back to the third by the everyday, performance-oriented demands and socialization of plastic cultures. Very few have defeated the bogus monster of the ego to reside permanently in the fourth room, and fewer still (only the greatest teachers) can glimpse into the fifth. Anyone who permanently reaches the fifth room loses his corporeal form...