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...toward a new consciousness. When Aurobindo retired into near-hermitic seclusion in 1926, Mira took over the direction of his ashram-the community of devotees that had grown up around him in Pondichéry. Six years his junior, she continued propagating his doctrine that man was on the threshold of a new phase of evolution toward perfection...
There is the feeling that events are crowding around the White House threshold and they will soon have to tumble out. The optimism of a few days ago that maybe Nixon had turned the corner and was starting out of his slump seems swept away now. There is Agnew looming large and the Watergate hearings resuming this week. There is the sense that maybe Nixon has not reached the end of his slide after all, that he is being swept along once again by events that cannot be foreseen or managed. There is Archie Cox and the vast court apparatus...
...long ago that Keith Stroup, head of NORML, appeared to be a rather improbable lobbyist, but now he and his Washington-based organization believe that they are at the threshold of success. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark will soon file a NORML suit in Washington federal district court arguing that the capital's pot-possession laws are unconstitutional. A favorable decision there would add credence to Stroup's prediction that marijuana may be legal nationwide...
...Advertisements for Myself, it should be Nearly As Demandingas the act of writing itself. In consonance with this existential reformulation, of his style, Mailer spent agonizing months rewriting flowstoppers, involutions and other grammatical roadblocks into the Deer Park manuscript, ostensibly to keep the readers concentration as high as the threshold of pain of writing...
Cambodia. This war-torn Southeast Asian country is on the threshold of national liberation. Criminal American air strikes, which have reached new peaks of barbarism in the past several weeks, will finally end at midnight tonight. A flurry of peace rumors is blowing out of Phnom Penh, Peking and Washington, but even a last minute face-saving settlement cannot disguise the fact that American imperialism has lost another...