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...Unofficial Conversion. Miller also decided to return to Esalen, where the residents had taken over the maintenance and service chores to offset the center's financial deficit. He pitched in as a combination waiter, bartender and supply sergeant with the exalted title of "wine steward." Team spirit worked miracles. So did the New Testament, which he began to read regularly, eventually undergoing an intense-though unofficial -conversion to Christianity...
...rogue and Stuart the saint. And that is precisely the equivocal condition of Hot Springs itself. Miller's finely paced narrative of ego death and transfiguration freely mixes elements and intentions. Ironic self-awareness vies with variations on the old-fashioned confessional and conversion tale. Frank disclosures are offset by pretentious allusions to existential phenomenology that could have come straight out of Sartre's Nausea. But the most worldly aspect of Hot Springs is as a testimony of a man remade; it also functions as a superior form of public relations. Stuart Miller, former literary intellectual and wine...
Lacking a means of exerting financial pressure, the Nixon Administration seems to have decided to apply political pressure. In addition to Trezise's remarks, U.S. officials last week inspired newspaper stories that the Administration is considering imposing a special tariff on all Japanese products in order to offset the undervaluation of the yen (which some high officials calculate is 20% below its prospective free-market value) or stopping Export-Import Bank financing of exports to Japan. That move could cut shipments of some U.S. raw materials, such as coal and lumber, that the Japanese badly need...
Civility is to the courtroom and adversary process what antisepsis is to a hospital. The best medical brains cannot outwit soiled linen or dirty scalpels, and the best legal skills cannot either justify or offset bad manners...
Perhaps the most obvious change in Australian life has been spurred by the mining boom of the past five years, which has more than offset the steady decline in farm income. There have been sizable finds of uranium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, oil and natural gas. A huge bauxite mine is being developed in the remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. But the center of the expansion lies in Western Australia, which occupies 1,000,000 sq. mi. and has about as many residents. At Kalgoorlie, where Herbert Hoover once managed a gold mine, vast nickel strikes have revived...