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THIS overriding, single vision of an order of nature being hacked to pieces is likely to make an outsider squirm. As an emotional reaction, there is something to it: people who feel a little awed at the top of a mountain, or even those who prickle when they hear a Simon and Garfunkel record, are likely to know what he means. But it's easy for talk like that to degenerate into guff, and Brower seems somewhat uncomfortable when he has to play the role of visionary...
Proof of Utopia. Center is not content to be merely topical, but offers some intriguing glimpses into past and future. In the current issue, Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, writes about an early Mesoamerican civilization that survived from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 900 without a single war. So attuned to their environment were its members, so at peace with themselves, that they simply felt no need to fight, nor their neighbors to fight with them. Here, says Merton, was a Utopian existence that was not mere fantasy...
...Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost stories' the accomplished seducer spins to entice a child away with him on the next train...
After twelve long hours of heart transplant surgery yesterday, doctors at Boston's Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic listed their world-famous patient in "marginal condition." Chief surgeon Dr. Amos P. Goy expressed hope the Ibis would survive, but cautioned that "one can't measure these operations purely in terms of success or failure." Dr. Goy, who in 13 previous attempts kept transplant patients alive an aggregate total of 19 minutes, said a more definite report would be possible by this afternoon...
...night waxed mercilessly into morning, a team of crack surgeons at Boston's renowned Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic worked feverishly to save a life. Head surgeon was Dr. Amos Goy, pioneer in the heart transplant and author of Your Telltale Heart. The life was that of the world-famous Ibis, found near death yesterday beneath a snow drift in Coolidge Corners...