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Books are the single largest classification in the catalogue; they include works by a predictable pantheon of authors-Buckminster Fuller, Carl Jung, John Cage, Arthur Koestler-and some not so predictable. Particularly recommended are Cosmic View, a 1957 children's book by Dutch Schoolmaster Kees Boeke ("You advance in and out through the universe," says the blurb, "changing scale by a factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers...
...Hanover, N.H., and his three Danish collaborators have been deluged with requests for ice specimens. The interest of other scientists is understandable. The ice now being preserved in deep freezes at Hanover may contain a wide assortment of nature's rare relics, ranging from evidence of past cosmic-ray bombardment to bubbles of ancient trapped air that will tell much about the composition of the earth's atmosphere thousands of years...
...Mann named these imaginary particles "quarks" (from James Joyce's cryptic line in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"). Gell-Mann cautioned that quarks might not exist outside his equations, but an Australian researcher recently reported finding them among the debris of atmospheric atoms broken up by cosmic rays (TIME, Sept. 12). Even if quarks are only a mathematical fiction, however, there is no doubt that their creator has brought man closer than ever to a fundamental understanding of matter...
...With this high energy output, "spinning neutron stars are capable of producing all the cosmic rays that we sec," Drake said. In support of the "big bang" theory of the universe, astronomers had used the argument that nothingin our galaxy could produce the high energy cosmic rays that scientists have observed. But according to Drake, the ability of pulsars within our galaxy to produce high energy cosmic rays "allows the opposing steady-state theory to survive...
...Dostoyevsky spoke, but to him who undergoes an endless process of self-development, whose unrest is not general but directed towards a search for the truth about himself and his mission in life." Between such an audience and his actors, Grotowski attempts to induce what Artaud called "a cosmic trance" and what Grotowski calls "secular holiness...