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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...female relations within the University than the raffle ever could. It is my personal hope that the East House Bake Sale and Party helped break down the widespread stereotype of Cliffies as academic and intellectual snobs who don't know how to have a good time or when to "stop being a whiz kid." Radcliffe may perhaps justifiably be thought of as a haven for National Merit Scholars who wear their grades pinned to their sweaters. But on the other hand, there exist along with them Cliffies who can enjoy a Bake Sale and a party, organized for the dual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...lonely here, I'm bored. . . We've felt so much, tried so hard in so many ways to bring some real humanity into the academy, and we've failed." Ten days ago Joel Kramer described the "incompleteness" he felt as he prepared to graduate. "Will I ever stop feeling so leaden-lazy; will I ever find something I want to do? . . . Harvard pulls hard at both ends, and you are left hurting in the middle." The unhappiness is there. Look around. You don't have to look very...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...next year. He controls his desire to consume, he adapts to the competitive rigors of the economic world, he invests, and by this method, the capitalist accumulates. But what happens to capitalists is that they learn so well this science of accumulating that they are no longer able to stop, no longer able to be content and enjoy. The struggle...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...body-mind cut off has been aptly labeled "mind-fuck." The boy had felt this before going to Esalen. There were nights when he would lie awake in bed, unable to sleep, his whole body shaking, because the thoughts flew through his mind in a frenzy. He could not stop them. Harvard had started his mind going, and he could not stop it. It was like HAL the computer, and it threatened to destroy...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...images flicker before him. Here, indeed, was the goddess of the modern world; here was the new muse calling, the muse of totally destructive mindlessness. Hour after hour, he could stare at the grey screen, giving himself to it; and he was grateful to it because it made him stop thinking, it took over his mind, and gave him the peace of forgetfulness that he could not find for himself...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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