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...consumer can do his part by consciously patronizing those firms which are not bent on a cleanup of the public but are making a determined effort to clean up their effluents...
...Cities need dogs about as much as farm country needs taxicabs [July 20]. Evidently, neurotic people need dogs and are bent on being cruel to them by keeping them captives in studio apartments. It is nauseating to see someone "disciplining" an animal for running or jumping, which is instinctive to it. As for the ecological aspect, in my area of Manhattan, we have devised a dance called the 26th Street Shuffle, which only results in keeping one's shoes presentable...
...lost among other planets, and our galaxy among other galaxies. But Science Fiction is also a voyage inward to the realm of the unconscious where identities merge into the one-ness of universal being and so forth. But the fiction, the unconscious, dominates over the science. Physical laws are bent to mental demands. An author's cavalier appropriation of any physical law or quirk to suit his fictional purpose is half the fun of Science Fiction. Three pillars of Science Fiction, then, are psychology, mythology, and of course technology. But they are all bound by a common force: fear. Fear...
...Tunstall place, boy name of Billy Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel). Billy's rival of legend, a onetime buffalo hunter who calls himself Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett), turns up one night, and that just sets things to steaming. Add an itchy killer for hire (Chris George), a sidewinder (Richard Jaeckel) bent on gunning Billy, and a bunch of cutthroats in the pay of a rich man (Forrest Tucker) looking to own the whole territory-well then, you got yourself a fair-sized prairie free...
Divine Disobedience is divided into three long sections. The first, and sketchiest, is an account of the communal lifestyle of East Harlem's Emmaus House, a prototype for countless so-called "underground churches." When Francine began her project, Emmaus House was a hotbed of zealous ecumaniacs bent on building a new kind of parish with home rule and spontaneous liturgies. The community has become considerably more secular since then, and is evolving into a center for nonviolence...