Word: psychics
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...towns themselves: his people still cherish the idea of community, even if all the familiar points of reference, the town halls and the churches, are flying off in pinwheel motion. Cheever is still writing about all the problems that began to plague suburban literature in the 50s: psychic and spiritual dislocation, the retreat from outward chaos into inward fantasy. Cheever doesn't even try to confront the new social dynamics caused by plastic cities and media zombieism (as another New Yorker John, Mr. Updike, always does...
...serious physicists who believe that such a breach is imminent is Columbia University's Gerald Feinberg, who suggests in his book The Prometheus Project that man may eventually find the means to achieve immortality. Feinberg thinks that psychic transmissions may one day be linked to as yet un discovered elementary particles, so-called mindons or psychons. Other scientists, however, give less credence to such will-o'-the-wisps than they give to another conjectured particle championed by Feinberg: the tachyon, which always travels faster than the speed of light, the theoretical speed limit of the universe...
...Take It with You and Harvey. The characters in those plays are part rebel and part kook, social dropouts, sort of sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than to laughter...
...sixth man to walk on the moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, said last night that psychic energy is far more powerful than nuclear energy, and that this energy could save or destroy the earth...
Mitchell said that man is destroying the earth, and the discovery of psychic power can be used either to continue to damage the earth, or to effect the earth's recovery...