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...wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval, and receives a constant stream of visitors, ranging from old pastoral friends to a delegation of Swiss prohibitionists. "I told them," says Barth, sipping vermouth, "that it was a good thing they existed, but theirs was not the main problem in the world...
...true believers the most evangelical are Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, two Harvard psychologists who have received national attention for their espousal of the psychedelics. Their article on the "Politics of Consciousness Expansion" is written in a stream-of-consciousness style that surely owes its incoherence to the influence of psilocybin. Their thesis, if one may use so conventional a word, is that hallucinogens have brought us to the brink of a psychic revolution, the leaders of which (Leary and Alpert) are comparable to Socrates, Bacon, Columbus, and Galileo. Their message, if they are indeed prophets, is that drugs...
Frustration Tolerance. The lure of franchising is that small businessmen, by investing a little money and a lot of time, can savor the big-brotherly benefits of a widely known name, cooperative advertising, "protected" territories and a stream of practical booklets that program the steps to success. To break into business, franchisees put up as little as $2,000 for a doughnut shop to as much as $1,300,000 for a Howard Johnson's motel. Once started, fewer than 10% of them fail...
...late 1940's Le Corbusier as a member of an international group of architects, developed the master plan for the United Nations Secretariat and Assembly. Yet, until the completion of Unite d'Habitation and the stream of commissions which followed it, Le Corbusier was primarily important as an architectural theorist rather than a producing architect...
...achieve prosperity and stability. The last white rajah did not live to see that day. Last week, at 88, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke died in his London home. When the news reached Sarawak, the spirit-worshiping Dyaks rejoiced, for they knew that his soul would return to the stream-laced land of his fathers...