Word: account
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...first big impetus toward this sort of mysticism came from the late writer-mystic Aldous Huxley, who in The Doors of Perception (1954) furnished a superseductive account of his experience under the influence of mescaline. Huxley recalled that earlier mystics had used fasting or self-flagellation to achieve a spiritual state. Nowadays, he argued, such measures are no longer necessary, since we know "what are the chemical conditions of transcendental experience...
...these explanations do not account for the lack of Junior and senior athletics, what does? A variety of theories have been offered to make sense out of the statistics. First, it is often said that competition improves with each incoming freshman class. A look at comparative freshmen records over the past few years, however, shows that yearly variations are insignificant. A second hypothesis blames marriage for the disaffection of many of Harvard's finest athletes. It may have been for some -- sprinter Aggrey A word, for example, during his senior year. And yet, Coach John Yovicsin says that none...
...return to the Class of 1966 the spiritual high-point came in the spring of Freshman year. This reporter participated in the event, and can produce a fairly complete account...
Died. Peter George, 42, author of Two Hours to Doom, the 1958 book from which the movie Dr. Strangelove was taken, a onetime R.A.F. navigator who wrote the original as a deadly serious account of nuclear war by accident, then helped Producer Stanley Kubrick turn it into satire; by his own hand (shotgun); in Sussex, England...
PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. An account of Hemingway's saddest years, told by a friend who shared them...