Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These studies concern hazards. Now let's look at some facts about the beneficial aspects of consciousness-expanding drugs. There are four papers summarizing questionnaire data from subjects after consciousness-expanding experiences. Ditman et al, McGlothlin, Leary et al and Savage. In each study the percentage of subjects reporting positive life change and dramatic insight runs around 66. These data are the more astonishing when we realize that they are reported by persons who were not in formal therapy but, for the most part, experimental subjects...
...Amfortas "that melancholy knight of the Grail, who whines like a shopgirl and whimpers like a baby." Yet traces of the Wagnerian influence remained. "But that's the whole of Parsifal,'' muttered Richard Strauss after hearing a particular passage from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande...
...during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began to understand that Debussy was attempting something new in opera; by reducing the vocal parts to declamation-close to spoken language-he was trying to elevate the orchestra...
...plates in this superb collection are by far the best reproductions offered this year, and it is fitting that they should be, since shocking, vibrant use of color was what earned the school of Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts) its name. The painters are Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Braque, Dufy, et...
According to the National-Zeitung, some of the money is being reinvested in profitable European companies. In one such deal, the Trujillos bought 70% control of Geneva's Banque Genevoise de Commerce et Credit. They also put $4,500,000 in cash into a new Luxembourg holding company called Societe Holding Bancaire et Financiere Europeene S.A. To the company's other founders, the Trujillos were known merely as the "Paris Group...