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...ridiculous badge. My brains are my credentials"), and has irked many fellow psychologists with his opinion that nudging rats through mazes has little to do with psychology. To prepare the book-his first -Jaynes learned Greek, interviewed schizophrenics, argued etymology with rabbis, chewed and inhaled the smoke of laurel leaves (like the priestesses of Delphi), and once invaded a Princeton bar at midnight to apply a psychological test to startled drinkers. "I've been trying to solve the problem of consciousness all my life," he says. "Everything, including my reputation among specialists, is second to that...
Colonies of rock musicians were forming in the Los Angeles subdivisions of Laurel Canyon, Echo Park and Venice. Glenn Frey drifted in from Royal Oak, Mich. Don Henley was a North Texas State English major before he decided to move west. They eventually formed the supergroup the Eagles...
Before long, everyone knew Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, who had grown up around L.A. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills lived near the top of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa in an old Tom Mix house a short walk away. Browne and Frey and Henley had Echo Park apartments. Linda was in Ocean Park. Jim Morrison of the Doors was the most successful musician of the crew, and the hardest to locate, since he often slept on the beach near Venice...
...twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
...race has used sports to order its social house in virtually every particular of life. English knights jousted for the hand of a lady; Philippine villagers set the boundaries of paddyfields in wrestling matches; Greek city-states staked local pride ("We're No. 1 in the Peloponnesus!") on the laurel-leaf total at Olympia. Wherever and whenever the match, a crowd gathered to be entertained. So the evolution of Super Bowl Sunday was just a matter of time and technology, awaiting the installation of millions of television sets. Indeed, there are remarkable similarities between the first prehistoric foot race?undoubtedly...