Word: breathings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breath Catching. Stage center on campus does not mean an occasional chamber-music get-together in the faculty lounge, but frequent, fully promoted performances before large audiences in gleaming new theaters. In return, the schools gain status and expert faculty material. "Universities now realize that experience under fire is more important than an academic degree," says Pittsburgh Symphony Flutist Bernard Goldberg, who teaches part time at Duquesne University. "Musicians who have been required to perform consistently under high standards can impart information not ordinarily found in textbooks...
...Breath of Fresh Haze
...team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
...Chemistry of Visions. Physicians have long suspected that even the visions of religious mystics were the result of some change in body chemistry brought on by self-hypnosis, pain, breath control, or intense hunger. Pahnke and Richards suggest that drug-induced mystical experiences may have a profound therapeutic effect on the subjects. Those who experience such releasing of their intuitive unconscious claim "increased personality integration, greater sensitivity to the authentic problems of other persons, responsible independence of social pressure." They sense "deeper purposes in life, lose their anxiety of death and guilt...
...hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target vehicle. He straddled his ship to steady himself. "Ride'm, cowboy...