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...believe. Instead, he asserts that people are conscious only when they think introspectively and become aware of themselves as part of an external environment. Not only can they function successfully without being conscious, Jaynes notes, but human beings have actually lacked consciousness for most of the time they have trod upon the earth...
...Trod Softly. The family's caution was understandable. "The S.L.A. was reading the Examiner as the voice of the Hearsts, and Patty's life hung in the balance," says William Randolph Hearst III, 26, her cousin and an Examiner reporter. For that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME...
...believe we must refocus our concern and energy on domestic affairs. In that context, the remark able Henry Kissinger becomes, oddly enough, a kind of problem. There was just a hint at Vladivostok that he was seducing Gerald Ford to walk the same primrose path of summitry that Nixon trod. ∎ That land of life is delightful with the urbane Kissinger as tour director. He brings those big fat briefing books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest on Kissinger's intellect, imagination...
...Aerosmith had just finished its set to a standing ovation from its teenaged following. People who brought coolers were standing on them, and people who brought tall friends were standing on them. Toes were crushed, ribs poked, necks craned, and sensibilities strained. People linked arms in human chains that trod and trampled anything and anyone in their, or its, way. This was the worst crowd I had ever seen, worse than at the Stones concert, worse than those at the Democratic Convention, worse even than much of Mayday...
...University's ten or so best on-campus musicians, and is dickering with God knows how many major firms for his potentially valuable services. His problem may be one of accessibility; he and his lyricist, Tom McNamee, don't exactly go out of their way to trod the middle of the road. Rick's strongest point may be his piano playing, full, explicitly derivative of the best of the foregoing traditions; he's made solo piano interesting and exciting again. The words, well the words'll certainly make you think. F.V.B...