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...Arab nations. What if we not only agreed upon the speakers but met afterwards to discuss their varying viewpoints? What if we joined our strengths to cooperate on this small task and in so doing learned something about who the "other" is, learned in a small way to transcend the anger of our fathers and mothers? What if we really did find a way "to beat our spears into ploughshares..." ...what...
...cannabis) by declaring it illegal, in those areas where it has become part of the cultural pattern (as if Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire, whether these states are reached pharmacologically or otherwise...
...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
...result, to no one's surprise, is a guilty and suicidal Susan, who spends the majority of the novel dwelling on her inability to transcend her parents' misery and contemplating her own destruction. Unfortunately, Susan reverts to the all too common methods of alcohol and hedonistic fantasies, and when these fail her, she attempts unsuccessfully to end her own life. Susan is miraculously, and somewhat unrealistically, saved from an overdose by her ex-husband, but it is a contrived redemption. Too many sob stories, too much booze, and too many trite lines about guilt and the meaning of life...
...Congress, the nation's legislators displayed a newfound zeal for California's best known rock group. "The Beach Boys transcend generations," complained Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D.N.Y.), the chairman of the House arts caucus. "Wayne Newton doesn't transcend anything." "Help me Ronald, don't let him run wild," urged Re;. George Miller (D-Calif.). And Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) suggested that Secretary Watt get going right away on a "surfin safari...