Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychology and mind-control techniques offered rational explanations of how humans can be conditioned to commit such irrational acts (see box). Yet the stories told by those who survived were both fearsomely fascinating and ultimately inexplicable. How could such idealistic, if naive, people set out to build an idyllic haven from modern society's many pressures and turn it into a hellish colony of death? This is how the Jonestown dream turned into a nightmare...
...loss drops Harvard to 0-2. "We haven't really found the right combination yet," Kleinfelder said. "We look good in flashes, but we need more consistency from the veterans and the frosh have to become comfortable and confident with our system...
Nothing did. The sisters appear once again, after over a year's absence from the recording studio. And the back cover demonstrates that they haven't changed their mood very much. Sporting devil's golden horns, they flaunt funny faces at the would-be purchaser. The earthly, self-amused, un-Los Angeles character that graces their other albums, Dancer with Bruised Knees, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle,once again graces Pronto Monto. It's too bad, though, that too many songs have shifted their subject matter into obscurity. Still this combo-country, cabaret, lejazzhot, album has enough winners to carry...
Early this month, Bowersock asked the Loeb staff to comment on Brustein's proposals. Since then, the administration has had no other contact with the staff, George E. Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, said yesterday. "It is rather odd that the employed professional people haven't been consulted more fully," he added...
...gold. Other investors may look on the yellow metal as the ultimate safe haven for capital, but the Saudi government realizes that since gold supplies are small any buys on the scale it would make would send prices into the stratosphere...