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Compared to Esalen, Primal Screaming and similar trendy behavior therapies, Transcendental Meditation is downright dull, says Associate Editor Gerald Clarke: "You don't shout, you don't take off your clothes, you don't blurt out your sex life to a bunch of strangers." Thus Clarke, who describes himself as "superrational," decided to try it. Last April-long before he knew he would write this week's Behavior story on TM-he invested $125 and four days in TM training. "I can't claim any miracles," says Clarke, "but I write with greater ease...
Randolph A. Hearst, Patty's father and the paper's president, has even made things downright difficult for his reporters. He often held press conferences on the case just after the Examiner's 3 p.m. final deadline, and refused to share with his editors his knowledge of any FBI disclosures. Though KQED-TV Reporter Marilyn Baker talked regularly with him on his private home phone, Examiner staffers on the story were routinely denied access. Says Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash: "There was a gag on us. We were told to cool it, not to pursue our leads...
...class in English from 100 to 17 in the past ten years, tells a story about a conversation he had recently with a certain state college official. This particular college, it seems, had just cut enrollment in its enormously bloated English Ph.D. program to 300 students. "That's really downright immoral," Buckley told the official. "What, cutting back?" the official asked. "No," said Buckley, "admitting one-tenth that many...
When the military overthrew the right-wing regime of Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal...
...ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray