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...world in our own lives for any longer than an instant. It all looks sensible on paper, and on paper we can deal with Pusey's simplistic attack. Is the vision worth fighting and dying for? What is the final efficacy of violence? These are questions which are uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and increasingly necessary...
...giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected to abort the approach and go around for another landing. Fortunately...
...fast mass travel, the idea of culture shock is familiar enough. Visitors to strange lands often find themselves psychologically off balance when they encounter unfamiliar foods, languages and customs. In one extreme case, a girl Peace Corps volunteer arrived on an island in the Far East and within hours found herself unable to breathe, eat or drink; she was shipped right back home. Yet culture shock is mild by comparison with what Alvin Toffler, a scholar and former FORTUNE editor, identifies in a striking new book (Random House; $8.95) as Future Shock. The term, likely to become part...
Called Golden Bat, the show has eye appeal, heart appeal and sense appeal. Its basic credo is far from unfamiliar. The staged ideas of the young have become almost a tarnished currency since the night Hair opened. Stop the war in Viet Nam. Be mighty free in speech. Struggle for your own identity. Strip to the buff and make love. It is the way the Golden Bat company illuminates this standard apolitical platform that makes all the difference. In this show the nude love scene is erotic, but the lovers are more tellingly naked in their tenderness...
...world in our own lives for any longer than an instant. It all looks sensible on paper, and on paper we can deal with Puseys simplistic attack. Is the vision worth fighting and dying for? What is the final efficacy of violence? These are questions which are uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and increasingly necessary...