Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human beings can learn to produce these waves at will if they are guided by "biofeedback training," a system of recording brain waves and letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, these attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious...
...right to gather and dispense information independently of government pressure. Moreover, journalists felt that the Court's decision would have broad, longterm effects on its relationship with the Federal branch. But a quick glance at any newspaper today, on almost any day, will show that the press's nirvana has dissipated as rapidly as it mounted; like a false spring spoiled by an April blizzard, the Court's 1971 decision has dissolved in the face of a high-handed reassertion of government power in opposition to the press...
...ALMOST GLIMPSES self-pity in Don Juan in this farewell speech. He is not offering his disciple nirvana, only the dignity of living and dying as a man. The road of a warrior is a lonely road. A warrior carries no baggage save his private nostalgia. Don Juan's satori is both liberating and irreversible...
...others choose the chic. Lovers of the exotic may insist that Morocco's Atlas Mountains, home of the ruggedly independent Berber tribes, offer the best schussing. Cross-country buffs are likely to feel that mushing through Norway's Jotunheim (Giant's Home) region is nearest to nirvana...
...WHEN WE WERE undergraduates, we always knew it was possible, but here it is nirvana," says John of the Ranch. And perhaps for the present it is true, but as one listens to the band talk about their music and way of life, one comes away with the impression that a constant battle is being fought against the encroaching reality of society as it is, that the classmates who went to law school might eventually have then way. Each rancher has his own thoughts on the subject of the future of the band, for each has individual concerns...