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Silent Guns. Once it would have been swiftly punctured by the party's right wing, which was outraged when Rockefeller refused to support Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. This time there were a few random shots but no fusillade. The balloon stayed afloat, and so did Rockefeller's chances. A few conservative diehards grumbled, but the big guns were relatively silent. Texas Senator John Tower said that Rockefeller would be O.K., though not his first choice. Senator Goldwater doubted that Rockefeller would go over with the G.O.P. rank and file, but would not oppose...
...research, elegantly computerized, was aimed at testing the ability of rodents to anticipate events (E.S.P.) or to effect physical changes by sheer will power (psychokinesis). He had electrodes implanted in the brains of rats in a zone where stimulation gave the animals intense pleasure. The stimuli were delivered at random intervals by a computer that in turn was keyed to the decay of atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence...
Passim's, besides serving coffee and good music, is showing "I Ching" watercolors by Martha Jane Mount. Mount works with a very wet brush loaded with strong colors, which she allows to spread and pool in seemingly random patterns. The lush atmospheric effects and abstract patterns Mount creates, many suggestive of land or seascapes, really need a larger format than she gives them in these small paintings. Perhaps the best watercolors are the few in which she uses a dryer brush and allows the color and texture of her paper to play a more forceful role in the designs...
BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS by MICHAEL MOORCOCK 174 pages. Random House...
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by BRIAN W. ALDISS 212 pages. Random House...