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Such reminiscences are likely to be followed by what Noyes calls "a mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music...
...literature, they may leave something to be desired; but as a lesson in prophetic hindsight, McCall's offered a sample of poems written by entertainers when they were too young to know better. From a twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught...
LFARNING the technique of Transcendental Meditation entails seven steps at once dubbed the "Seven Steps to Bliss." After two free introductory lectures, the actual course-which costs $45 for college students and $75 for full-time working adults-consists of an initiation and four one-hour lessons on consecutive days. The beginner learns to meditate the first day through step-by-step instruction with his teacher and immediately starts the practice of regular meditation-once in the morning and once in the late afternoon. In the next three lessons teachers check their technique and discuss their experiences at meditation...
Sponsored by a Republican acquaintance of Bliss, Mullen applied for the job under his own name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first...
Then he and the Bliss crew spent another month in Chicago's working-class and slum wards, laboriously checking out names and addresses. They reported finding more than 1,000 cases of election-law violations, mostly forgery: people whose "signatures" appeared on ballot applications but who had not voted. There were also instances of phony addresses (one "residence" proved to be a police station, another the middle of a busy intersection). Some "voters" had died or moved away long before the primary. These and other irregularities were found in 22 of Chicago's 50 wards...