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...belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations with the "post-modern" aesthetic: "symmetry...precision...logic...formalism." All the while the extraordinarily funny dismembering of the repititive pattern continues...
Legend Confirmed. "The greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." That sounds like Richard Nixon's blurt on the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was written in the 16th century by a Spaniard named Lopez de Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent...
Compared to Esalen, Primal Screaming and similar trendy behavior therapies, Transcendental Meditation is downright dull, says Associate Editor Gerald Clarke: "You don't shout, you don't take off your clothes, you don't blurt out your sex life to a bunch of strangers." Thus Clarke, who describes himself as "superrational," decided to try it. Last April-long before he knew he would write this week's Behavior story on TM-he invested $125 and four days in TM training. "I can't claim any miracles," says Clarke, "but I write with greater ease...
...there he slips up and tries to sneak in an old Jack Carter re-tread like "I was once so poor I used to walk into a restaurant and play for an omelette--what a tough crowd that was." Misch was fortunate enough this night to have a shill blurt out a well-timed "If you're funny enough--any egg will crack up," to obscure the dreaded silence. But he'd do best to refrain from the clinkers and stick with his own fresh material. In a comic field sorely needing new humor. Misch seems to have...
Harvard's actual 3-1-1 record should be kept a secret. Don't let on to a soul that Coach George Ford's young team has really won more than it has lost. If you should blurt it out to someone who watched the squad struggle through last season, you most likely will draw a few comments like, "That's a good one." But what if he should actually go and check a game out. The secret would be blown...