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JEREMY captures young love-its humor and giddiness as well as its melancholy-with wistful affection. Too wistful, in fact. Jeremy (Robby Benson) is a precocious, upper-middle-class New York kid who aspires to be a cellist...
...Benson and O'Connor bring real warmth and urgency to the deepening relationship between the two teenagers...
...sessions. Fed up, citizens last April approved a referendum requiring developers to get special permission from school districts before applying for residential zoning changes. Remarkably, the voters, including those in the building trades, overrode their economic self-interests by cutting the rate of construction. "The people," says Mrs. Claire Benson, a civic leader, "had to choose between continued growth and their kids' needs. They chose...
...meetings, and maintaining dossiers on militants -whether or not they were suspected of crimes. On occasion, his men have posed as newsmen to obtain demonstrators' names; but he said it was done without his approval, and he ordered the practice stopped. He wins good marks from Arthur A. Benson II, a local lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, for being "amenable to suggestions and not irritated by criticism...
...Herbert Benson, an assistant professor of Medicine here, found evidence two years ago that drug abusers who tried TM broke away from their dependencies much more often than a control group. "It was clear that most were at one point heavily involved in drug abuse," he said of his sample of 1862 Transcendental Meditators. "But practically all of them--19 of 20--said that they had given up drugs because they felt that their subjective meditative experience was superior to what they achieved through drugs...