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...wrote to avoid doing term papers at Allen Park (Mich.) High School ("This poem is a kiss for your mind"). At 19 he dropped out of Eastern Michigan University to make his fortune as "the paperback Rod McKuen." In 1975, at 25, he hit the bestseller lists with The TM Book, a Q.-and-A. guide to Transcendental Meditation for the skeptical and the fearful ("No funny clothes? I can still eat Big Macs...
Some of the intellectuals approached by TIME resolutely refused to play. 'Tm against it," said Garry Wills, author, columnist and professor of American culture and public policy at Northwestern. "I think it's profoundly uneducated to frame the question in terms of lists." Others were willing to play but mistrusted the rules. "Very few books stand on their own," said Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard. "You cannot read Kant without having read Hume, and you can't read Hume without having read Descartes...
...Staff James Baker, where they had been following the vote by telephone hookup to the Senate floor. The count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess a few minutes later. "I came to applaud you," said Reagan, clapping his own hands...
Continued Morris: "I put up my hands and shouted, Tm British, I'm British!' I was grabbed by an S.A.S. man, who hurled me through the door. Had he arrived literally two seconds later, I would not be here to tell this story...
...members of Unification Church and Divine Light Mission also have local ashrams. Scientology operates a mission and consults for a school in Cambridge. Transcendental Meditation has a large house on Concord Ave. where they teach classes and promote Maharishi International University, "fully accredited education for the Age of Enlightenment." (TM spokesmen asked not to be included in an article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book also turns up such groups as Eckankar, the I AM Sanctuary, the Integral Yoga Institute and the Church...