Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intern at San Fran cisco's Mount Zion Hospital. Weil hopes to make a career of research into drugs that influence the mind. With marijuana, he learned?the hard way?about some of the research difficulties involved. Pos session or use of marijuana is illegal, except by hard-to-get federal dispensation. Universities are skittish about sponsoring research that might incur public or congressional criticism, and it took Weil a frustrating year to get the study approved and organized. Then he did it up right: he got his marijuana from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs itself...
...Thinker's Grappling. Despite his acknowledged eminence, Barth's masterwork, Church Dogmatics, is one of the least-read great books of the century, and Barthian neo-orthodoxy now seems almost as old hat as the orthodoxy it displaced. Yet Barth wanted no disciples-except, he said, for his own sons Markus, a professor at Pittsburgh Theology Seminary, and Christoph, a Biblical scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal...
Fascinated by Zen. Merton's wide-ranging, eclectic mind could touch upon the Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani...
...most versatile of the college backs, Keyes seems to have just one shortcoming: there is only one of him. The scouts, citing the way he has demolished Notre Dame on both of fense and defense, are touting him for almost every position on the field except head lineman. Most, however, agree his speed, deceptive moves and pass-grabbing skills would be put to best use as a flanker. "He's so great," says one scout, "a mean coach would use him both ways until he burned...
...local credit bureau of his dismissal, whereupon the adjuster sued for slander and collected a $1,000 judgment. Because he sued, even though he won, he has since been classified as a "dangerous" credit risk, on the ground that he is "litigious." He has been unable to find employment, except as a $2-an-hour security guard...