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...Threshold has graduated 15 companions, who are now in "field training"-working without fee in a nursing home. Fifty more companions, mostly women in their 30s and 40s, are about to complete the eight-session course on the problems of bringing comfort to a dying stranger...
...University of California in San Diego. During the three-hour weekly class, the teachers stress the fears and ambivalences of the dying, discuss problems of suicide and euthanasia, and use the techniques of role-playing and psychodrama to illustrate possible relationships between a dying customer and a paid stranger trying to be a friend...
...level science fiction courses are being taught in this country today. With the numerous high school and junior high school courses being offered that figure is even higher. As science fiction has lost its "subliterary" categorization recognition has followed for several science fiction novelists: the masterful Robert Heinlein for Stranger in a Strange Land Frank Herbert and Dune, published in 1965, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards: Isaac Asimov's brilliant, futuristic Foundation trilogy: and Ray Bradbury and Arthu C. Clarke for Fahrenheit 451 and Childhood's End, respectively. On television, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone...
...know of no other explanation for this stranger lack than to submit that there to one target with science in its tide which is as safe to lob bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...
...Read in 1949, The Third Man is one of the most exciting movies ever made. Tonight is von Sternberg's 1936 version of Crime and Punishment with none other than Peter Lorre as Raskoinlloov, Tomorrow begins Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Orson Welles' The Stranger, with Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi war criminal hiding out in America...