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Another provision of the fairness rule -obligating stations to offer reply time to victims of "personal attack"-is now also being challenged in the courts by the networks on the ground that the procedure inhibits free speech. Last week, in a typical retreat, the FCC asked that the decision be held off while it considered modification of the rule. Just as typically, the House Investigations Subcommittee plans to move in with two days of hearings on the whole subject this week...
Another student--the only one of the nine who said he had taken LSD "fairly frequently"--talked at length about what made him retreat to drugs. Planes of talk range from functional, housekeeping exchanges through gossip, banter, ideological disputes, to metaphysical discussions, he said, and it is not difficult for two people to fix themselves at the same point on this scale of conversational levels. But there is another dimension to communication, where mutuality is almost impossible to achieve, he said. That is intimacy, an "ultimate intimacy not obtained by shared confessions of guilts, ambitions, Oedipus complexes, or secrets...
Barred from that fusion of minds, he went on, people retreat wholly into themselves or into a makeshift substitute like the frenetic sensuality of the plastic hippie or the cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped-down jargon--"I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I' up tight"--thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saying 'I've got to split the scene'?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find it impossible...
Inside the Maharishi's 15-acre ashram (academy), inner peace last week was overshadowed by outer turmoil. The Maharishi's guards used barbed wire and billy clubs to fence off a horde of reporters and photographers trying to cover the retreat. After one photographer was whacked repeatedly by a gang of sentries when he wandered past the guard station, the Indian police arrived at Rishikesh to open an investigation. Because the Maharishi charges $800 for three months' room and board, the police may also declare the ashram a hotel and force the Maharishi to register guests like...
Later, his imitative successors managed to make even sensualism a fraud. Contrary to legend, Louis XV's notorious Deer Park, explains De Gramont, was devoted to rather small-scale lechery-"more of a tired businessman's retreat than a royal orgy-house." Worse, Madame de Pompadour was, by Louis' testimony, cold as a coot, though she plied herself with aphrodisiacs of hot chocolate laced with vanilla, truffles and celery soup. She spent most of her energies keeping official appointments and answering as many as 60 letters a day. Her rewards were the unglamorous ailments of the busy...