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Harvard Psychiatrist Randolph Catlin says that "anxiety dreams" may help displace present-day tensions with a more familiar and manageable past experience-like exam taking. When the exam was truly traumatic, the sleeper may be dreaming about it again and again in order to gain control...
...regime. This challenge is implicit in Solzhenitsyn's call for the punishment of the more than 250,000 people that he estimates are guilty of the crimes he details in his book. Responsibility reaches far beyond former concentration-camp guards. By implication, myriad Soviet bureaucrats in the entire present-day chain of command are culpable. Recalling the punishment inflicted on prisoners like himself, Solzhenitsyn writes of those accountable: "We must be generous and not shoot them . . . not grip their skulls in steel bands, not shut them up where they will lie on each other like baggage. No, none...
FRIDAY: Escape From the Planet of the Apes. 1971. Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter monkeying around for the third time in installment three of the Apes series. They escape a nuclear holocaust by fleeing back in time to present-day Los Angeles. Some escape. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...research costs of the Walpole endeavor, including some 80 trips abroad in quest of material and the salaries of all his assistants (who have usually numbered about a dozen). Lewis does not like to discuss the project's costs; the Yale University Press will say only that by present-day evaluation, it is a "multimilliondollar venture." Except for the first couple of years, when he operated out of an office in the Yale library with one assistant, Lewis has also supplied working quarters at his estate near Connecticut's Farmington River...
...gurus and the yogis serve a similar function in the present-day United States. Young people groping for sense amid the numbing madness can grasp at anything that seems ordered and coherent--even a chubby teen-age Perfect Spiritual Master who rides a motorcycle when he is not dispersing the Word. Suffering, illogic and irrationality must be explained if people are to function in the world, and in the swirling confusion of the moment, almost any form of consistency can pass for truth...