Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slowly, as out of a fog, life began to be a matter of basic questions again. Who am I? Why was I born? Why must I die? What is life all about? Who-or what-makes...
...evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and leafless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered by the film...
...Cramer has a further and richly justified suspicion of anyone who, deserting the filthy snow and fog of Cambridge, turns up on a fashionable pasturage in Switzerland. But on this the answer is simple. We found it first. John Kenneth Galbraith Warburg Professor of Economics
...Fog. Castaneda says he does not smoke or drink hard liquor; he does not use marijuana; even coffee jangles him. He says he does not use peyote any more, and his only drug experiences took place with Don Juan. His own encounters with the acid culture have been unproductive. Invited to a 1964 East Village party that was attended by such luminaries as Timothy Leary, he merely found the talk absurd: "They were children, indulging in incoherent revelations. A sorcerer takes hallucinogens for a different reason than heads do, and after he has gotten where he wants...
...foil those who seek to know his own personal history. What, in fact, is his background? The "historical" Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist and apprentice shaman, begins when he met Don Juan in 1960; the books and his well-documented career at U.C.L.A. account for his life since. Before that, a fog...