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...what, after all, could be a more fitting philosophy than transcendentalism for the Beatles, who have repeatedly transcended the constricting identities foisted on them by press and public, whose whole career has been a tran scendent, heel-clicking leap right over pop music's high Himalayas? On the basis of what they have achieved so far, it would be rash to dispute George when he says: "We haven't really started yet. We've only just discovered what we can do as musicians, what thresholds we can cross. The future stretches out beyond our imagination...
...appreciation of man's transcendence, argues Pike, can lead to an empirically based faith in the hereafter. As evidence, he cites experiments dealing with the plausibility of extrasensory perception and clairvoyance that have persuaded him, with only "a modest leap of faith," that "personal survival of death is a fact." Fact though it may be, Pike warns that too much speculation about the mystery of heaven, hell and the afterlife leads nowhere: "It is here and now that we are called to learn, to work, to love, to enjoy-and to grow. There is in this view of things...
...idea was to leap from 20,000 ft., free-fall exhilaratingly to 3,000 ft. or so, then pop their chutes for a landing. Ordinarily, such high-altitude jumps are made only after meticulous planning, on clear, calm days, from perfectly positioned aircraft, to targets safely distant from such hazards as rivers and lakes. On this day, though, the sky was mostly overcast at 4,500 ft., the winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never...
...average 3.98% to 3.91% for 20-year issues. And big investors scurried to snap up the last half of the big A. T. & T. debentures, which they had been spurning on the ground that the rate should have even been higher. Many corporations postpone bond offerings if interest rates leap too high. "We don't have much option," says A. T. & T. Vice President-Treasurer John J. Scanlon. Reason: as the nation's largest private borrower, the Bell System must tap the market almost every month...
Love & Art. For his terrifying, black penetration of the heart, Paul Bowles commands cold admiration. Living in Africa, corresponding with America in a kind of code, he uses the same metaphors of loneliness and abandon that signaled his leap from music to the novel with The Sheltering Sky in 1949. His work is art, a minor art, mirroring a part truth-that man is alone. The other part of the truth is that man has the power to break out of his loneliness through two forces: love and art. Bowles knows the second, not the first...