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...next time I dissuade my three-year-old from some artistic endeavor because it's messy, I'm going to think of Leah Spielberg making cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker for Steven so he could film the explosion...
...walls of Harvard. Frederick Ausubel, associate professor of Biology and a consultant for the nine-month-old Biotechnica, Inc. says a potential conflict of spirit can occur. "Can one devote all that much time to creative work at a university and at the same time have a major creative endeavor somewhere else?" he asks rhetorically...
...whole the unpleasantness of community reaction to Lavender Portfolio which was funded by the Gay Students Association (GSA) is upsetting at first. But then one realizes that the magazine affords the unfortunate opportunity for anyone with an instant unreasoning discomfort about homosexuality to express disapproval of the endeavor on purely "artistic" grounds. Thus for far longer than any endeavor on purely "artistic" grounds. Thus for far longer than any other new campus magazine would have continued to draw comment one could encounter debates over the triteness of the stories the taste of the cover photo the problem...
Kresling is admirable, both for his rowing prowess and for his restraint. He refrains from the kind of glazed-eyed, sweaty babbling that too often characterizes books about serious athletic endeavor, maintaining a light, witty tone most of the time. This is not "The Inner Game of Crew," And of course it's fun to read about something so incestuously Ivy League as the Harvard-Yale Race, the oldest intercollegiate athletic competition in America. (Although we wonder if Kiesling is purposely misspelling former Harvard varsity captain Charlie Altekruse's name, having had to give up a Yale shirt...
...universe is the backdrop for the unfolding of consciousness culminating in humanity's reunion with some sort of Godhead--the Buddha or Hegel's Absolute Spirit or what have you Wilber does not attempt to reconcile science and religion but instead shows how they are part of the same endeavor, the Atman Project--humanity's constant striving for knowledge of an absolute, such as the Buddhist Atman. As Wilber points out, not all scientists would admit to this. "A scientist who guffaws at the existence of any sort of "infinite" but unashamedly marvels aloud at the 'laws of Nature (with...