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...Navarro's presence has not proved a magical elixir to the win-thirsty Tigers whose record on the eve of today's contest with the Crimson is 1-3-1. Navarro has been trying to implement the much-vaunted veer offense at Princeton and the fifteen starters returning from last year's team have been sorely taxed to memorize the new series...
Well they might. R.R.P. is a remarkable index of new-age creeds. In the Church of Satan, worship equipment includes candles, a bell, a chalice, elixir, a sword, a gong, parchment and "a model phallus." (Not that Army chaplains are likely to have to supply them, since ritual secrecy is also part of Satanism.) There is also the Native American Church, an Indian group that has won court approval to get high on peyote during weekly or monthly rituals that run all night. The Army does not state whether the peyote rites must end in time for reveille...
Some insist that climbing brings man closer to God. Jerome is not sure. But he does believe that mountains help man to appreciate both his planet and himself. "Gradient is the elixir of youth," declares a geologist, and he may be right. Flatlands, worn down to sea level by gravity and the forces of time, are old, almost senile. Mountains, no matter how ancient, are new and dynamic. No one can spend much time with them - or with Jerome's high-minded volume - without feeling the same...
...instead of stressing the moral or political outrage that fed their "caring," she harps on their emotional needs. Human beings, she tells us in a remarkable burst of insight, need to find meaning in life. Moreover, she reveals, people need to overcome feelings of isolation. The Party was an elixir for those seekers of passion and politics...
...Holy Cross Monday at 3 p.m. For the uninitiated, baseball games are ideal places to consume mass quantities(...of beer that is). During my spring trip throughout the country, I visited Duke and noted that students watch their baseball team while consuming large volumes of the golden elixir...