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Turn and Turn. The once placidly prosperous church, which has 3 million members, was torn up in the late 1960s over a program of grants to radical minority groups. That was just a prelude to the cosmic war over permitting women to be priests and bishops. The proposition had been rejected in 1970 and 1973, but the Minneapolis convention finally voted in favor of the full ordination of women,* breaking with a practice dating to the earliest days of the church. In the House of Bishops, 60% voted yes, a slim margin to carry conviction and impel churchwide support...
...become an illegal position. Radical as he is, the author feels some sympathy for the law-and-order position. Mysticism is a good thing, in his opinion, for those who can handle it, but he fears that mass inflation of the transcendental could bring on an epidemic of "cosmic insanity." He wisely advises the unwary neophyte to look carefully before he leaps into the abyss of being...
...Sanford thereupon completed an anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then New Republic Owner Gilbert Harrison, a Nader man. Nader has not talked to Sanford since. He is not likely to do so soon, especially given some of the less than cosmic questions raised by his quondam collaborator...
...natural and artificial light. That was the essential subject of Delaunay's disc-paintings. An eye used to the targets and stripes of painting in the 1960s might seize on Delaunay's First Disc as a prophecy. But Delaunay's image was meant to be cosmic, its intentions mystical, and with its luminous feathery hues, First Disc radiates a subtle intensity of feeling that its descendants cannot claim...
Your article "Mars: The Search Begins" [July 5] was interesting, but I object to being called a "cosmic freak...