Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took by imagining the span of time since life first appeared on earth as a trip along a tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin's theory did not suggest that man as a biological animal had improved in the 5,000 years of more or less civilized history. There was no real proof either that evolution toward a still higher life form could be speeded up by improving man's environment...
...extreme, this attitude could turn isolationism; as it is, it is probably a sign of a healthy national reevaluation. Talking about U.S. Pacific Edwin Reischauer, former Ambassador to Japan, that the U.S. adopt a "lower profile," or what the Japanese call a "low posture." None of this suggests that the U.S. should- r could- withdraw into a Fortress America. But it does suggest does suggest that after Viet Nam, the U.S. might get along with a somewhat smaller military establishment...
...mobility within a performance itself. Therein lies the influence of Calder, whose mobiles are made of 15 to 20 parts moving freely in space and changing their relationships with one another from minute to minute. Pollock's paintings, created by the "action" of dripping paint onto canvas, suggest the spontaneity and freedom accorded the conductor, who cues the musicians as he sees...
...Mice. Parapsychology, in fact, is international. In Britain, Mathematician S. G. Soal has long toyed with basic ESP phenomena.* A respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...
Space-Capsule Communes. Many theologians are asking whether it is ethical for man to transport bacteria from earth to other planets without knowing what the biological effects might be. Some clergymen suggest that prolonged space travel might result in new forms of family-sort of space-capsule communes. "When you have ships with a dozen or so people on them," says the Rev. Edward Hobbs of Berkeley's Episcopal divinity school, "I would presume that there would be some sort of heterosexual community formed...