Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really great interview in Playboy magazine provide a theoretical basis for what acid trippers believe about telepathy: "Tribal man is tightly sealed in an integral collective awareness that transcends conventional boundaries of time and space. As such, the new society will be one mythic integration, a resonating world akin to the old tribal echo chamber where magic will live again: a world of ESP . . . Electricity makes possible--and not in the distant future, either--an amplification of human consciousness on a world scale, wihtout any verbalization...
...from sources as varied as Learned Hand and Alfred North Whitehead, Judge Wyzanski began his legal analysis with the broad contention that the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion means "that no statute can require combat service of a conscientious objector whose principles are either religious or akin thereto...
...income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded Congressmen rightly fault that idea as merely papering over today's loopholes. The plan would end none of the questionable favoritism in the present law. Moreover, it would allow the rich to pay something akin to a cheap license fee for the right to go on using loopholes...
...alive for me in photographs. Maybe that is sick, but I feel more free to look closely at her then. I have more time to look. At times I fall through her eyes and out darkness is no longer divided. Then we live in one great fear which is akin to love. The collection of photographs is an attempt not only to record but to incorporate the seven years of her life. I realize it is a failure. One photograph, when the time is right, is the complete record and the essence, while the collection is a meaningless shamble. Nevertheless...
Despite Black's fears, the court made it plain that it was approving only demonstrations that do not sabotage the normal school routine. The wearing of arm bands in Des Moines, Fortas said, was a symbolic act "closely akin to pure speech" -and it did not provoke any major disorder. Presumably, the court may not take as tolerant a view of more troublesome demonstrations in the future. And its reasoning may well reach beyond public schools to college campuses, where minorities have effectively prevented other students from getting the education that they or their parents are paying...