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...results of man's building of great machines to take him to sacred places at forbidden speeds is that he can not only arrange things so he is taken to great heights above his planet, but he can do it any hour on the hour to Chicago. Once man has been around his wondrous achievements long enough to take them for granted, he passes the experience down to his lesser numbers to let them inculcate it into his culture. Anybody, even the little beggar boy who scrapes up his $40, can go out to a town called Orange, Massachusetts...
Pike admits that he allowed his son to use LSD in their digs at the university. "Had I forbidden him to take trips in the flat," the bishop writes, "he would no doubt have gone out with friends when he wanted to drop acid. And then I would have accomplished nothing except alienation." By the time Pike returned to the U.S., he was convinced that the gap between them had been conquered. He was stunned when a priest interrupted evensong services at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to tell Pike that his son had been found dead in a Manhattan...
...replace the present system of specifying the hours during which women guests may visit students in the Houses by the following rule: "The rooms in the Yard and the Houses are provided to accommodate the students to whom they are assigned. Other overnight occupancy of such room is forbidden." Bruce Chalmers Master of Winthrop House
...elders, President Nyerere's sackcloth socialism has produced an official austerity seldom matched in Africa. Members of Parliament are forbidden to own shares in businesses, cannot be corporate directors, and must forfeit their salary of $160 a week if they have any outside income. Only beer is served at government receptions, and the swiftest way to political oblivion is to be a wa-benzi, or the owner of a big car like a Mercedes-Benz...
...Like many forbidden dramas, it was later performed privately at one of London's "theater clubs," which were exempt from the licensing laws...