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...velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies seem to have been at least partially lifted by enormous...
...After a while they begin to relax-they find out that they can just live and take their time to do things. I spent hours last year just watching an eagle catching air currents by the cliffs out there. It was really remarkable-he'd balance in the air, tilt and dip, and rise again forever without moving his wings...
...movement of history, one thinks of those eloquent words which Harold Laski wrote of de Maistre-whose willful obscurantism sought to exorcise the French Revolution: "The world that had seen the fall of the Bastile," he wrote, "was bound to be a different world. To tilt against its fundamental principles may have been courage, but it was the courage which has been immortalized by the dangerous pen of Cervantes." But for "cyclical" Lipset there is never "a different world." It is ever and always the same, a world of domination. For as Adorno observed of Spengler, the principle of relentlessly...
Perfectly Taurus. Schmidt's theory turns upon the fact that in the 2,000 years since the old astrological rules were set up, there has been a slight change in the tilt of the earth's axis. This has caused an apparent shift in the positions of the constellations. In addition, he notes that astrologers have refused to recognize that there are actually 14 constellations in the Zodiac belt...
...affluent Easterner from Blue Hill, Me., who thrilled Janis by, among other things, paying the dinner checks she always used to have to pick up herself, even when in a crowd. To her friends, she talked casually of the possibility of marriage. Her new back-up group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, had got excellent notices on a coast-to-coast tour last summer. Recording sessions for Columbia-six-day-a-week affairs, often running from 2 p.m. to midnight-had been going well. Out of ten songs planned for her new album, she had only two left to complete...