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What It Means. When the agreement was finally initialed, much of the world reaction was highly emotional. Japan, the only country to have been an atomic target, was most enthusiastic of all. Sang Tokyo's biggest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun: "Sayonara, Mushroom Clouds." IT'S A TRIUMPH! headlined London's Daily Express. In the name of Pope Paul, the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano called the Moscow accord "in harmony with the profound and universal wishes of mankind...
...helplessness of the individual soul. For Welles they are social references meant to be interpreted almost literally. In the book, Joseph K. dies stabbed through the heart, with the faces of his executioners fatly pressing close to his; in the film, he is dymamited to death, and the mushroom cloud which rises from the blast clearly symbolizes not the pain of the soul, but the collective end of mankind...
...with children say that the 40 million Americans aged two to twelve strongly influence the spending of one consumer dollar in seven, and affect family purchases of everything from cars to soap. "Once children become impressed," sighs a Chicago advertising executive, "they are very successful naggers." Buy Me a Mushroom. To impress its Esso trademark on the youngsters, Humble Oil mails out thousands of bird houses, coloring books and popsicle molds among its "gifts of the month." Norge stimulated appliance sales by offering a free children's tent with every purchase. Supermarkets have found that young children, who accompany...
...true believers contend that anyone who hasn't tried the drugs cannot judge them; anyone who has, will, they claim, be converted to them. The attitude is expressed by R. Gordon Wasson, a man whose pioneering researches on psilocybin-containing mushrooms would lead one to hope for better: "We are all divided," he says, "into classes: those who have taken the mushroom and are disqualified by our subjective experience and those who have not taken the mushroom and are disqualified by their total ignorance of the subject...
...child's riddle has it that the room no one can enter is the mushroom, but sometimes it seems just as hard for ordinary citizens to enter and observe the U.S. classroom. One man who does go to school, and reports what he sees in readable books, is David Mallery, 39. Long, a teacher of English, at Philadelphia's crack Germantown Friends School), Mallery now works for the Boston-based National Association of Independent Schools, which sends his reports to public and private schools, teachers, parents and school boards. The effect is to inspire them with the wide...