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Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...
Canon Dewar's own original interpretation of the working of the Holy Spirit is that His field of operation is the unconscious, where He can make Himself felt in terms of what the parapsychologists call "psi phenomena"-clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.-as well as in everyday life, the source of what the Christian calls his "conscience." Nor, in Canon Dewar's thinking, is the Holy Spirit limited to Christians...
Continuing his study of astronomical phenomena. Liller used the density of the planet Saturn, estimated at .72 the density of water. Astronomers have calculated, however, that even if the entire planet were made up only of hydrogen, the lightest element, gravitational attraction of atoms would bind them together so tightly that their density would be far greater than...
...identifying creation "not with an act in the past by which the world was originated, but with an incessant activity [of God] by which it is conserved in existence . . . Preservation and creation are really identical." This, to Huxley, is nothing but "doubletalk. The whole range of physicochemical and biological phenomena can now be accounted for in principle in naturalistic terms: to invoke the operation of God in the process is not only unnecessary but intellectually dubious...
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein. the show is redeemingly satirical, has turned into one of the most surprising phenomena in off-Broadway history. Running since last autumn to capacity audiences, Little Mary is sold out till the end of the month, plays to theater parties and matinees in an enlarged seating capacity (from 199 to 299 seats), has its own "original cast" album (Capitol...