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...main drawback of both books is that they tell almost everything about TM except how to go about it. Readers are referred to the 397 meditation centers across the country that offer a seven-session course in the TM fundamentals for $125 ($65 for college students). Following the procedures set up by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the nonprofit TM movement, new recruits are initiated in candlelit, incense-filled rooms. Trained teachers assign each student a personal mantra-a meaningless sound that must be kept secret. Students are taught to close their eyes for 20 minutes twice daily, focus...
...about without taking a hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit would always be available. By geological accident, moreover, the Grenoble valley is almost flat, and thus is ideal for bicycling. The only drawback: auto and truck traffic has made bicycling too dangerous...
Original Sin. Enderby's chief drawback was not digestion but want of genius. Burgess can convincingly describe ways in which images might come to a kind of colloidal suspension in the expectant poet's mind. But when he had to cut the cackle and produce the egg, both reader and author were left in the embarrassing presence of Enderby's mediocre verses. Yet Burgess, a man of wit and genius, has been fond enough of this queasy minor poet to devote one, two and now three volumes to him. Why? Because with all his faults, Enderby...
...Alchemist runs smoothly, on an elegant set whose only drawback is that it's such a good suggestion of serious occult mystery that you almost forget how much of a con game The Alchemist is. Mosca's direction is quick, sure, and creative, though the first act only smolders. The Alchemist isn't the kind of cosmically reconciling play that Shakespeare's best comedies are, but it offers its own kind of delights. Most of them come through in this production...
From H.G. Wells to George Orwell, and from Isaac Asimov to Harlan Ellison, science fiction writers have cared about the future. Whether science fiction can retain its present form remains a question. Ironically, the major drawback of many of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is their almost paranoid concern with the purity of science fiction in the future. Like cold War Warriors faced with detente, the once isolated science fiction writer must confront a vast new audience that contains many of his old enemies...