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...cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming. The end won't come that easily, though, and his struggle to attain grace becomes merely a grasping at identity, an identity that wavers between Europe and America, father, murderer, surgeon and witch doctor...
...been assured, they will some day be given the right to become Mormon priests. Although there is no sign that the day is imminent, Harold Lee, the "revelator," could theoretically receive the word from God any time. Meanwhile, he advises blacks to become Mormons anyway. Even if they cannot attain the highest privileges, he says, they will "get more by baptism into the true church than they would otherwise...
...discussion of drugs in this context is his refusal to attribute value judgements to the varied expressions of this need to experience a high. He carefully discusses the disadvantages and properties of drug-induced highs, and differentiates between the abuse of chemical agents and their proper use to attain a certain psychic state. The Amazon Indians' use of natural drugs as community events moves Weil to suggest four ways to encourage their proper use; use drugs in natural ways, avoiding synthetic chemicals and the isolated, more potent forms of natural drugs (marijuana rather than THC); use drugs ritually, for certain...
...doubtful that she could ever attain the instant star quality and studied grace of Jackie, or the sensitivity and charm of Lady Bird, but Pat has far outdistanced her own exemplar, Mamie Eisenhower, as White House hostess. More people, 124,805, have passed through the White House during her residence than ever before. Pat also has quietly been carrying on Jackie's restoration, redecorating the Blue, Green and Red rooms and acquiring museum-quality paintings and furnishings...
...FILM Drew is a nice but naive man who can't back it in the wilderness. The river adventures are so harrowingly detailed that we accept the necessity for survival ethics unquestionably doesn't attain a supernatural aura of self sufficiency and Bob's upset is offset by quiet strength (in the book he is an unmitigated bore). These two seam for the peace of their homes they hit land. And the only time we glimpse Lewis outside of his natural element is as he recuperates in a hospital...