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...unique telephone chemistry takes it from there: unencumbered by considerations of appearance or even identity (only first names are used), and sharing a common interest, the subscribers swing easily into freewheeling, relaxed conversations. For reasons that even the TeleSessions hosts don't fully understand, two people seldom talk at once, interruptions are rare and discussions generally follow a polite, orderly sequence. Among the specialty groups meeting regularly are gourmet cooks, advanced photographers and small-business presidents. Groups of science-fiction buffs. Buster Keaton fans and wine connoisseurs will soon be on the line...
...McKernon, Hell's-Angelic in his goatee and leather jacket, a very tough-looking honcho, pokes about the stage, beating a huge, glittering tambourine when the music calls for it. He looks neglected a lot of thetime; one Dead follower claims that McKernon seldom plays the keyboards anymore because of arthritis in his hands. But when the time comes for a Pigpen song, he's standing up to the microphone singing hard and well, and blowing strong blues-harp-solos...
...mission to create a near-perfect being, become the child's shadow, with equally damaging results, according to Brandeis Sociologist Philip Slater. The child soon recognizes that he is the center of an extraordinary effort and that his happiness is a matter of great stakes. He will seldom turn out exactly as planned, and when family dissension ensues, the mother will resent her "sacrifices." Moreover, though she may have brought up her child to be "more cultured, less moneygrubbing, more spontaneous and creative" than she herself was brought up to be, she is nevertheless upset when he then refuses...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has provided a definitive survey of the course of Zen ideas and disciplines as reflected in Oriental art from the 13th to the 19th century. The result of long negotiation with the Japanese government, it includes several scrolls of such rarity that they are seldom exposed even in Japan...
...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...