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Instead, they have turned inward, worrying primarily about what kind of people they will become. They are more conventional than their predecessors, according to a series of interviews conducted by TIME correspondents across the country. They are also, at the same time, more materialistic and more religious. Some glimpses of this year's graduating class...
Nader has shown a rare ability to attract supporters from both sides of the generation gap. Last year he set up the Retired Professionals Action Group, which will shortly issue a searing report on the hearing-aid industry. College students are said to be apathetic and inward-turning these days, but Nader's representatives have no trouble recruiting the most able students for low-paying "Raider" jobs in the summertime. Even more important, some 41 student PIRGS-for Public Interest Research Groups-are now under way in 16 states. PIRG students make small contributions to support full-time consumer...
Science, Rennie says, so long the materialistic brand of knowledge, begins to come upon evidence of other types of experiences. The pineal gland points to the mystical concepts of the third eye--looking inward, regulating the other glands . . . Einstein finds a single equation reducing all matter in the universe to pure simple energy--an energy infinite in extent, timeless, perfect, uniting all individuals, revealed in the Guru's brand of meditation . . . another essence revealed in meditation is the Divine Name, which crops up in references to the Christian logos and to the name of Krishna . . . another essence, a divine nectar...
...both are big-boned, powerfully featured and capable of talking far into the night. "It is easier for Brandt to talk to Brezhnev than to Nixon," says one experienced Western diplomat. "There is a quality of openness in Brezhnev that Brandt enjoys and shares. Nixon is a more difficult, inward person...
...world. Safe within the TV-bred confidence that everything will turn out all right by the end of the half-hour, Maynard handles the information flood that shows no signs of ebbing by retreating to the blind trust of earlier times, by pleading ignorance, by turning inward...