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...funding. Unemployment runs high in many scientific disciplines; the number of young people drawn to the laboratory in certain key areas has diminished significantly. Indifference to scientific achievement is the mood of the moment. Even such bold ventures as new voyages to the moon or Mars, construction of giant atom smashers, and journeys to the depths of the sea fail to excite a public that is half jaded, half doubtful of the future benefits of such extravagant undertakings...
...Kennedy and Johnson on national security and disarmament, he succeeded Oppenheimer in 1966. The switch from scholar-intellectual to action-intellectual offended many of the mathematicians. Even worse, Kaysen and the trustees announced that they intended to found a New School of Social Sciences. "We know more about the atom than about ourselves," Kaysen says, "and the consequences are everywhere to be seen...
...that seems to obsess the 20th century. Staring into the glassy eyes of the madman, just what does one see reflected? An empty room? A fellow sufferer? The family circle, crowding close? An entire culture? Students of mind seem to have learned from students of matter that the smashed atom will reveal astonishing forces lurking within the normal...
Though many people outside Illinois viewed Kerner as a progressive, energetic Governor, he was in fact mostly good looks. His main accomplishments were getting the Atomic Energy Commission to build a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in western Du Page County and appointing a board to map long-range goals for education in Illinois He nevertheless gained such a reputation that Lyndon Johnson appointed him to head a presidential commission on civil disorders. Among the character witnesses at his trial was retired General William Westmoreland, who described him as a man of "impeccable character...
...Power Spot." It may confront, more clearly than the first three books, the final purpose of Don Juan's painful teachings: a special case of the ancient desire to know, propitiate and, if possible, use the mysterious forces of the universe. In that pursuit, the splitting of the atom, the sin of Prometheus and Castaneda's search for a "power spot" near Los Angeles can all be remotely linked. A good deal of the magic Don Juan works on Castaneda in the books (making Carlos believe his car has disappeared, for instance) sounds like the kind of fakir rope trickery...