Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undoubtedly a symptom of some serious problems in our society. First, this kind of behavior reveals a failure of the family, the church and the schools to instill basic moral standards among a sizable part of the population. I feel that the schools bear a special responsibility in the inner city...
...With such great responsibilities one could easily become very tense," says Witteveen, whose eclectic reading list covers the Bible, the Koran and the Inspector Maigret whodunit novels. But most of all he finds inner peace in meditation, "turning away from all that happened during the day." Witteveen's parents were both members of the Sufi movement. "I grew up with it. I began to study, and was very much touched and convinced. This is a deep and wide philosophy of life. An important part of it is mysticism." Appropriately among the ten articles of faith professed by a Sufi...
Quinlan, 22, mirrors Deborah's inner turmoil in a strong and sensitive performance. The splendid Bibi Andersson does as much as possible with the passive role of Dr. Fried, but the film makers' conception of the role is a letdown. There are some absorbing early glimpses of Dr. Fried's sessions with Deborah, but one suspects that several later scenes were cut, as if the film decided to shy away from the struggle of minds. We see Deborah's emotional breakthrough, but the question of precisely how Dr. Fried helped bring it about is fudged...
...Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
...terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns rather than weighty parables. No one can explain the game's appeal, and Kahn insists that "You learn to let some mysteries alone, and when you do you find they sing themselves...