Word: nirvana
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...have earned a vote of confidence by the sheer weight of their accomplishments. There has not been enough time for that, What is important, is not the achievement, but the goals: This student government doesn't aim at electing someone to the American Presidency; nor does it see Nirvana in a neon-lighted lecture hall. Instead it is trying to focus the intelligence of interested students into the dark corners of Harvard's administrative policy, to improve substantially the education every student receives. It seems just possible that the College has finally found a student government fitted to its needs...
...Only a few miles farther south, near the almost alarmingly pretty village of Carmel, the tennis buff can find a kind of nirvana. It is Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, founded in 1958 by the Del Monte Lodge's former tennis pro when the notion struck him that "if nothing else interferes, you can really perfect your tennis game." Based in a California ranch house set in a stand of oak and eucalyptus trees that provided a windbreak, his tiny but flourishing operation has accommodations for 22 people, includes two swimming pools, seven
...NIRVANA (Atlantic). Flutist Herbie Mann and Pianist Bill Evans stage a slowdown, giving a performance that is either extremely cool or simply congealed. There are some pleasant Oriental overtones but scarcely a beat, let alone a pulse, in most of the pieces (Willow Weep for Me, Mann's Nirvana); Cole Porter's I Love You is a cheerful exception...
...Bottle of Bliss. "Is the LSD state a model of madness, a touch of schizophrenia, or is it a short cut to Zen satori, nirvana for the millions?" asks Dr. Cohen. His answer:, it is certainly not schizophrenia, and it differs from a true psychosis much as a wooden model bridge differs from the Golden Gate. Conflicting reports of diametrically opposite results with LSD are difficult to explain. Some subjects found the experience as horrible as any psychosis and would have no more of it; others, with the same dose, could not get too much. "Was it possible that...
...vanished; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude ... I seemed to have finally arrived at the contemplation of the eternal truth." The doctor suffered numbness and shivering so severe that he needed three blankets. But he accepted these discomforts as a small price for admission to nirvana. And he suffered no catatonia...