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Father (Alan Webb) is a curmudgeonly tyrant nearing 80, marching with faltering step and bristling temper into his pitiable dotage. He has sapped the life out of his wife (Lillian Gish), bullied his middle-aged son (Hal Holbrook) into something resembling psychic impotence, and barred his door to a daughter (Teresa Wright) because she married a Jew. Except for the sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries...
...have a powerful new instrument for psychic investigation--LSD--and it seems of utmost importance to explore fully the ways in which LSD may be used to accelerate spiritual progress. And that is what we will...
...explain further, for the trade that I am involved in, even though it is the second oldest profession known to man, is not one with which the average person is familiar. Palmistry is one of several so-called psychic sciences which deal with man, his personality, and his future. Astrology, for example, is an ancient and widely acknowledged "science" which uses stars and different times of the year to foretell what is in store for the individual. Another common form of fortune-telling is cards, either the common variety or Tarot cards, which originated in Israel. Tea-leaves are read...
...native dramatic country for Tennessee Williams. But the new note is a Pirandellian ambiguity as the characters continually shift between their two poles of reality. Are these actors 'playing a mad brother and sister, or are they a mad brother and sister playing actors? In any event, the psychic locale of the play is a kind of streetcar named despair; the loaded revolver that glints with menace in the closing scene of the play could go off with equal accuracy in either the scorching Southern town or the icy theater...
...college-age Volunteers, the physical hardships turn out not to be a problem: if anything, the reverse, since such hardships provide a self-evident obstacle and one that is readily surmounted. The graver hazards are emotional and inter-personal. They may include the risk to one's psychic balance of living at once alone and in a crowd for two years; the risk to one's self-confidence in encountering one's first significant failure after years of success at home and in school; the risk to one's sense of values of coming to question, in a strange environment...