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...Seagull was Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and despite the production leader's disclaimer, people asked about him even in more formal meetings. Apparently the book's been translated into Chinese--maybe as an example of the decadence of contemporary American culture--and they all wanted to know how we accounted for its popularity. "It's very simple," the woman who'd asked about love admitted, though, when we asked about recently published Chinese novels, "We don't like anything." I guess it was one more bond of sorts--at any rate, I felt a solidarity with her and her friends that...
...disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks her grief with a tall story. "Poor Ducky...
Many of Ornstein's ideas are spelled out in a book, The Psychology of Consciousness, published in 1972 and adopted for classroom use by more than 300 colleges and universities in twelve different departments ranging from biology to religion. Says Robert Livingston, professor of neuroscience at the University of California in San Diego: "Ornstein does an outstanding job of communicating ideas and giving a degree of legitimatization in areas which would be considered a little bizarre from the point of view of classical psychology." Says Assistant Professor of Psychology Louise Ludwig of Los Angeles City College: "Ideas about consciousness...
...missionary attitude," Karefa-Smart means the spirit of self-serving forays into the jungle by westerners in the footsteps of Livingston and Schweitzer. Their attempts at curative medicine had little impact on total community health; they were better at healing their own spiritual woes...
...staff turned up some glimpses of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the President's men. Newman told them that he had appraised 828 boxes of the President's general correspondence files in November and early December 1969, with the help of Supervisory Archivist Mary Walton Livingston of the National Archives. On Dec. 24, according to the report, he was told by Nixon's tax attorney, Frank DeMarco, that "there was nothing more...