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...psychologists have arrived at a wonderfully elastic profile of the people who attach themselves to these intellectual chain gangs: just about anybody. Applicants require only an unsatisfied spiritual longing, a condition apt to strike anyone at some point in life. Social status is no indicator of susceptibility and no defense against it. For instance, while many of the dead at Jonestown were poor, the Solar Temple favors the carriage trade. Its disciples have included the wife and son of the founder of the Vuarnet sunglass company. The Branch Davidians at Waco came from many walks of life. And at Rancho...
...culpas to heart and light up less often? After declining for years, smoking has leveled off, and teens seem to be increasing their intake. Older smokers may pay more heed than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more...
...depth of the stage was exploited to its fullest: stifling scenes of Baal's seedy attic in the gut of the stage, outdoor romantic ones in the woody fringes and a split stage for crowd scenes. The objects that took central stage were apt, given the nature of the play: a stained bed, a drinking table and a dining table...
Most people think that Simpson was tried twice for the same crime and that he was found guilty the second time. A more apt name for the second trial would be kangaroo court. It brings to mind John Wayne's line as Marshal Rooster Cogburn, when he tells the bad guy that he'll get a fair trial and a fine hanging. RON FYTEN Pierz, Minnesota...