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Even for the city of stars, it was a cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser...
...three physical science critiques offered of Velikovsky's cosmic conception that appear in the book, Sagan's is the most accessible to the non-scientist. Sagan uses basic physical and chemical theory to attack the ideas of repeated planetary collisions and of the involvement of a comet in the stopping of the earth's rotation (along with the falling of manna from Heaven). He concludes, "To rescue the hypothesis requires special pleading, the vague invention of new physics, and selective inattention to a plethora of conflicting evidence...
Sadat's historic visit to Israel, and his meeting with Begin was paralleled, on a far less cosmic scale, by the journey of TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who flew to Israel with the Egyptian President and was greeted at the airport by Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff. The occasion marked the first time Wynn and Neff had met and exchanged views in Israel (their previous meetings had occurred on neutral ground such as Athens and Paris), and the first time that Wynn had set foot in the Jewish state. Says Wynn: "Before the 1967 war, when East...
Sunshine's basic message-it's O.K. to feel good about yourself and get rich-is expressed in muzzy cosmic jargon. "Money is spiritual," says one of his printed lessons. "It represents universal energy and exists only in your consciousness." Some of it also exists in the Prosperity Training bank account: $250 a customer, which brings in about $12,000 a course, two or three times a month. In addition, a few well-heeled clients pay Sunshine $5,000 each for private training. There are always a few spoilsports who complain. One real estate agent who took...
Prayer in general is an integral part of the Christian's life and can range from the purely material financial requests to vast cosmic thoughts, or simply to praising and thanking God. Crist says prayer and Bible reading are the highest priorities in his everyday life...