Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traned to convey emotion with the spoken word, Seldes expresses herself quite beautifully with written ones. Her style possesses a completely spontaneous quality, as if she were confiding these thoughts for the first time. Though concise, the writing frequently leaves an image that sways gentlyin the reader's mind...
...like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast on new frequency...
Authors Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman '73 have undertaken a monumental task, that of investigating dozens of cults and movements to discover just what snapping is, why it occurs, the implications for our society and our theory of the mind, and perhaps most importantly, whether it is a threat to freedom that should be fought or an historical moment of widespread social transcendence that should be welcomed...
...dark side of sudden personality change was obscured by reports of the transcendent, cosmic, revelatory and eestatic experiences many people had as a result of meditation. LSD, or whatever. They have set out to illuminate the negative aspects of the phenomenon--and come up with scare stories of brainwashing, mind control, Manson murders, Son of Sam shootings...
...drastically--since 1937 when he arrived to assume the position of dean. He says that there were only two courses designed "clearly and specifically" by the School for its own purposes, although an increasing number of courses in the Government and Economics Departments were designed with the School in mind. All courses were formally listed as being in the Ec or Gov departments. "Classes were held all over the lot. I taught them wherever I could beg, borrow or steal some space," Price says...