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Because its conditioning, and conditioning can be de-conditioned. How is a miracle. It happens naturally sometimes; somebody wakes up on top of Fern Hill, or hears Blake, or however you first got laid, or whatever the catalyst is: it opens up the realization...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Digger Papers | 7/16/1968 | See Source »

...rather implausible knowledge of orchids, pules equally obscure and unlikely reservoirs of genius. Perhaps the most extreme example in this regard is the moment when Poitier snatches a weed off the accelerator of the victim's car and, a knowing smile on his face, says "Osmunda, a fern root," Which is all very well and good in a Shamrock Holmes story...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: In the Heat of the Night | 9/26/1967 | See Source »

...NAKED PREY. In a stunning, single-minded epic of survival, native warriors track Director-Star Cornel Wilde through scenic Africa of a century ago, where menace lurks behind every fern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...staff, David Martin and Gerard Zeiller, later surmised that Klein had paid Dodd at least $10,000 for his troubles. Mrs. Carpenter acknowledged that the conversation she had overheard was merely speculation, and Stennis dismissed the testimony as valueless. But Dodd was enraged that Committee Counsel Benjamin Fern had knowingly permitted the statement to come out, announced dramatically that he would request the Justice Department to institute perjury proceedings against Mrs. Carpenter. Subsequently, Martin and Zeiller swore that Mrs. Carpenter's testimony was "false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Private Lives | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...Fern read 61 documents into the record, including voluminous correspondence between Klein and Dodd. In December, 1963, Klein complained of canceled West German contracts that had cost him $100,000. Dodd wrote in February: "I believe that I might be more successful with the people in Germany if I talk to them alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Private Lives | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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