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It should therefore come as no surprise that the authors have limited their study to only part of that huge field of data. However, by doing so they have biased their results and have missed what is probably the more important half of the story--a direct examination of those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Your Personality Snapping? | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Conway and Siegelman thought the dark side of sudden personality change was obscured by reports of the transcendent, cosmic, revelatory and eestatic experiences many people had as a result of meditation. LSD, or whatever. They have set out to illuminate the negative aspects of the phenomenon--and come up with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Your Personality Snapping? | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Among his more provocative propositions: that man created God in his own image; that a man cannot comprehend God's transcendent love unless he has fully experienced the carnal love of a woman; that God is a cosmic jokester, with man as his butt and the earth as his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shakespeare, Chekhov & Co. | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

The House is less of a gentlemen's club than the Senate. It is more like, say, a parliamentary version of Stillman's Gym. But over two centuries it has evolved its own internal rhythms and intricate habits of doing business. Most of its work, for example, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Putting Congress on the Tube | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

"Crocker," Kojak would say, musing over the body of a just dispatched crook, "...don't worry. It happens." For Long John and Bentley, facing generals and then orals, facing the real prospect of unemployment in June, that was transcendent wisdom. It happens. No use worrying. The simple serene Greek wisdom...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: The Man With the Lollipops | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

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