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...visions. "Garfinkel said, 'Don't explain to me. You are a nobody. Just give it to me straight and in detail, the way it happened. The richness of detail is the whole story of membership.'" The abashed student spent several years revising his thesis, living pff odd jobs as taxi driver and delivery boy, and sent it in again. Garfinkel was still unimpressed. "He didn't like my efforts to explain Don Juan's behavior psychologically. 'Do you want to be the darling of Esalen?' he asked." Castaneda rewrote the thesis a third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...President showed simply by his silence that the discussion was closed. "We're going to take a taxi downtown and put the papers on the train," he announced agreeably after a pause. To Corey he said. "Come along, I know a new speakeasy. The taxi is on the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Gathers Funds for a New Home | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...CENTER of the new prosperity is Taipei, a city of open sewers and closed minds. Taipei's International Airport is the main entrance from the outside world. The jets land, and taxi past ancient anti aircraft guns, past USAF cargo planes and the prop planes of the tiny Asian airlines...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...more than a decade, the Bank of America in San Francisco has been spending $170,000 a year on free taxi rides home for 325 female employees who work after 8 p.m. Recently, male workers have complained that they are being discriminated against. Bowing to the pressure, BOA has decided to abolish the free rides; instead, it will provide free shuttle service to brightly lighted parking areas. But, as Key Punch Operator June Apedaile points out, "most women either don't have a car or don't want to drive." Having won their point, BOA'S male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Male and Female | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...understand that a newspaper should print both sides of any controversy which I assume The Crimson attempted in its article about me and the taxi driver on December 19, 1972. I must call to your attention, however, what I consider a serious lack of judgement in your reporting: 1) my attorney, Mr. Reginald Lindsay, was not with me at the hearing before the Clerk of the East District Court of Boston; 2) the statement of the redcap that you received third hand from Mr. Provo ("...saw Evans gesture wildly at the driver, get out of the cab, jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EVANS CASE | 1/5/1973 | See Source »

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