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...Hanging, at $5 a head to raise more money for the lawyers. Richard Austin, a Presbyterian minister, one of the few outsiders (he moved to the area from Washington six years ago), urges everyone to be at the trial in Abingdon. He goes over the long list of ponds, drill sites, access roads and trenches that APCO intends to create just for its survey. There is also a 2,000-foot tunnel to be drilled into the mountainside...
...third floor, scientologists participate in drills designed, as Velona said, to "better their skills in communication." Near a window sat two students facing each other and staring directly into each other's eyes. They sat motionless and speechless. "This drill allows one to feel more comfortable when talking to somebody eye-to-eye," Velona said. In the middle of the room two women also faced each other. One said, "Do birds...
...pancakes for breakfast this morning," the other replied. Velona said the drill teaches a student "to persevere until her question is answered...
...earliest years, Einstein showed no obvious sign of genius; he did not begin talking until the age of three. At Munich's Luitpold Gymnasium (high school), he bridled at the inflexible system of rote learning and the drill-sergeant manner of his teachers, annoying them with his rebellious attitude. Said one: "You will never amount to anything...
...these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified Forest, but he communicated with the economy of a professional. Gortner's performance, for all its Bacchanalian intensity, lacks just this sort of professionalism. We cannot help but admire his characterization. Half demented encounter group leader, half psychotic drill sergeant, he strips people naked with a sentence. He tells the fat adolescent waitress nobody will marry her. He calls her macho greaser heart-throb, Red Ryder, a fairy. He calls the bluff of an effete, narcissitic New Yorker and waves his wife's priceless violin around threatening to smash...