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...interview with anyone who has really had a transcendental experience graces the pages of this book. No discussion of the great Eastern religions that lie behind the cults appears. Not one sentence on the possible alternative interpretation of the cult movement is found--no hint that maybe people are happier and more attuned to the world as ascetic missionaries than a citizens in Consumer America. And by tacitly equating the mass-therapies and pseudo-Eastern movements with all the deeper social currents flowing towards mystical experience, spiritual integration and consciousness-expansion, Conway and Siegelman do a great disservice...
Bunuel seems to take a perverse delight in pointing up bourgeois foibles; with a hint of a sneer, he rips away the veils of middle-class civilization and urbanity. His knocking down of social myths proceeds largely along the class lines so clearly defined in modern European consciousness. One gets a sense, watching a Bunuel film, that he's not only shattering myths, he's mounting a vaguely Marxist attack on false consciousness...
...leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
...send its stock flying, all a company has to do is hint that it might get into gambling. Shares of Ramada Inns, which is merely rumored to be interested in diversifying into gaming, have risen 267% this year. Reflecting the market's irrationality as well as its volatility, Wurlitzer, the jukebox producer, climbed several points after announcing that it was not expanding into slot machines. Though worried by the jumpiness of the stocks, the New York and American exchanges had been reluctant to do anything that might spoil the action that is profitably increasing volume and enticing people into...
...EYES on the bookjacket portrait look into yours and seem to know you. They are kind, sad, wearied eyes that might weep but for the hint of humor around the mouth. Passionate conviction mixed with despair rest for a photographic moment on her face, one side in shadow, the other exposed by the sunlight. Tillie Olsen has seen...