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...years ago, reports on the exploits of such miracle workers would have drawn little more than derision from the scientifically trained. Now, however, many medical researchers are showing a new open-mindedness toward so-called psychic healing and other methods not taught in medical schools. Of the more than 400 doctors, engineers and biophysicists attending a four-day conference on parapsychological medicine at Stanford University last week, few were ready to endorse Arigó's methods. But they were willing to listen as Dr. Henry Puharich, formerly on the faculty of New York University Medical Center, confirmed some...
...reader, Barth -who is also an English professor at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York -provides a pony. (Pegasus by any name is just as helpful.) As he explains in Chimera: "Since myths themselves are among other things poetic distillations of our ordinary psychic experience...to write realistic fictions which point always to mythic archetypes is in my opinion to take the wrong end of the mythopoetic stick...
Eagleton's sudden rise and fall in national Democratic politics was one of the odder chapters of recent American politics, surely sufficiently swift to give any man the psychic bends. In his cheeriness, there was some suggestion that Eagleton himself might have had doubts about his ability to take the strain. But overall, he endured his abrupt anointment and excommunication with thoroughbred resilience. As he left the Senate after his final session with McGovern, Eagleton insisted upon shaking hands with a dozen onlookers on the street: "Goodnight folks. Vote for McGovern...
Facelessness. More specifically, Dutton claims that suburbanites and union members now find a new bond in their common concern about "instability, facelessness and congestion" in U.S. society. "Psychic problems are rapidly outpacing economic concerns." The blue-collar workers are "increasingly young, black and female," he argues, and this means that "their concerns are not at all what George Meany thinks they are." Thus, despite the open animosity of AFL-CIO President Meany and other labor leaders, the McGovern staff feels that the Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment...
...gift was obtained at great psychic expense. Wilson's father was a prominent lawyer whose career dissolved in mental illness. Soon after, Wilson's mother-who gave him the detestable sobriquet "Bunny"-went mysteriously deaf. Journalism became consolation, then a career. After Princeton, he reported for the New York Evening Sun, then joined Vanity Fair. Later, as critic at the New Republic, he made the original assessments that launched America's literary renaissance. Wilson was the first important critic to recognize the fragile talent of a fellow Princetonian. "F. Scott Fitzgerald," he wrote in 1922, "has been...