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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With regard to John Allegro's "mushroom" theology [June 8], it may be that some scholar in the future, arrogating to himself a similar kind of mushrooming philological method, will remark that the name Allegro means "lively" or "fast." He might also notice the similarity between "Allegro" and "allegory." And if he should reach the conclusion that "John Lively" was simply a metaphor for a fast-talking type who never really existed, who could blame...
...Soviet crackdown on internal dissent: the confinement of dissidents in mental institutions on the grounds that they are mentally unbalanced. Said Solzhenitsyn in his protest statement, which was circulated to Western newsmen in Moscow: "If this were only the first case! But it has become a fashion, a devious method of reprisal without determining guilt when the real cause is too shameful to be stated...
...radicals, quoted daily on TV and in the press. Those in the middle who cannot live with either version are increasingly beleaguered. Most people still talk about making a stand against Communism, though they are increasingly unsure whether Viet Nam represents the right place or the right method Here, as elsewhere, even the fiercest hawks tend to say that getting into the war was a mistake in the first place. It is not so much that El Dorado's people support the war as that they are angered by radical attacks on the country, the President, the armed forces...
...over from the Apollo program. In fact, NASA officials hinted last week that they may cancel next year's Apollo 15 moon flight and possibly one of the subsequent moon shots to free more Saturn 5s for space stations. But ultimately only space shuttles offer a really economical method of provisioning and rotating the crews of larger stations such as the twelve-man orbiting laboratory planned for the late 1970s. The Russians, who may well be testing space-station systems on the Soyuz 9 two-man mission (which at week's end had completed its twelfth...
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes...