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Trying to explain his dilemma in communicating results, Alpert drew on Plato's cave analogy, implying that those who had taken the drugs had seen the sun, and persons still enchained in the cave were unable to believe their story. The drug experience, he said, is "nonverbal, without space and time coordinates...
...batch of exultant Bayar men who stopped their bus in front of the Ministry of Defense and "made signs against the army," then issued an announcement warning that the "events threaten national unity." At this signal, pro-government demonstrators themselves took to the streets yelling "Bayar, back to your cave," and ransacked Justice Party headquarters. In Istanbul, cops tried to prevent a bloody clash by opening both pontoon bridges across the Golden Horn, thus separating pro-and anti-Bayar groups...
...bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda a walrus-mustached buffalo hunter...
...effect that the article had on the prisoners was evidenced when we read it aloud to a Synanon meeting in the cave at the prison. Recognition for doing the right thing was a new experience for most of these men, whose only recognition formerly was based on the outrageousness of their crimes. CANDY LATSON Reno...
...their archetypal reality, as dreamed by our greatest writers rather than travestied by our poor selves." This Platonic ontology can be argued, but Plato himself was in no doubt that this theory was the enemy of art. Reality may be like the figures in Plato's famous cave, where only the shadows may be seen by mortal eye. But, it is just those shadows that are the substance of art, and the business of malting a play of their flickering forms is still quite a trick...