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...Ouija Board. From the dozen documents that make up an application for admission, universities have little difficulty spotting the genius or the academic jerk. But after that, says Harvard Professor Stanley M. Cavell, member of a committee that decides who will enter graduate study in philosophy, "you get out the Ouija board, you offer prayer, you purify yourself. In this moment of despair you start looking at the watermarks on the paper-anything to differentiate one candidate from another...
Deep below deck, with all the mindless certainty of a Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving...
...William Sloane Coffin Jr., regards glossolalia as a genuine religious experience and as a natural way for students to gain "emotional release" from the tensions of college life. Another New Haven cleric rejects the phenomenon as "a gentlemanly fad." Students mostly take a dim view. "My grandmother had her Ouija board," says one. "My mother had her Bridey Murphy. Now they have this. It's all the same to me." The glossolalists expect skepticism, and respond with a rueful joke: "Maybe this is what St. Paul means by being fools for Christ's sake...
Faith & the Ouija Board...
...long life have provided me with a sedative philosophy. I wish some of the inaccuracies were true-the one about the richest writer, for instance. What fun! The next time we meet it will be in Milestones. I shall write you then too. Just dust off the Ouija board. FAITH BALDWIN Norwalk, Conn...