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There is nothing highhanded about Thalassa, a 59-year-old British-born grandmother who finds "relief from the everyday pressures of life by working among living things which refuse to be hurried." On her twice-weekly show, Making Things Grow, which is carried on five educational stations in New England, she is to spathiphyllum cannae-folium what TV Chef Julia Child is to pate en croute...
...Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will be 70 in July) German-born philosopher to find a satisfactory rationale for rebellion...
General Anesthesia. Marcuse concedes that modern technology provides man with material well-being and even admits that more men may be happier today than ever before-but it is a happiness born of an ignorance ("a state of anesthesia") of what they could become. Men may think they have more freedom and more choices, he says, but the options open to them are not meaningfully different. In this state, man rejects all thoughts that challenge society's rationale-hence Marcuse's definition of man as "one-dimensional...
...being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin and that God created the earth in six days; after two warnings, the minister "was charged with heresy and ordered to turn in his key to the church door before leaving town...
Thirty Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia is a vanity fair devoted to showing off the talents of Comic-Pianist Dudley Moore, the bedeviled star of Bedazzled and Beyond the Fringe (and Suzy's offscreen escort). This time he plays a 29-year-old jazzman born under the sign of Virgo who worries that "if you don't make it by the time you're 30, you'll never make it." Before reaching that climacteric, he resolves to write a hit musical and get married. Moore manages to do both-and do them comically-thanks in large...