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...including Dr. Benjamin Spock, every body's baby doctor (who confided that he may picket the White House in protest against MLF), Dan Blocker, the strapping "Hoss" of TV's Bonanza, Mrs. Robert V. H. Duncan, president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and nine relatively unknown couples from Texas. Johnson was in fine fettle. Before toasting the Queen, he introduced nearly everyone at the table: "Our own beloved Chief Justice Warren. The Vice President-elect, Mr. Humphrey. The next chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate-if the Republicans come to power...
Prosperity is a major factor-and the leisure that prosperity has brought on a scale unknown to any other culture in the history of mankind. And once the trend began, it has been augmented by feedback from all the institutions that serve society. The universities have been reaching out more and more into the communities around them, staging lectures, recitals, plays and debates to which the public is invited. The foundations are handing out more and more money for cultural causes-an estimated $50 million this year. In 1964, for instance, the Rockefeller Foundation made grants to seven symphony orchestras...
...that one gets from the LSD encounter what one deserves, but he quotes Aquinas for a more accurate summation: "Quidquid recipietur secundum modum recipientis recipietur"-our nature determines what we receive. But mankind will not always know its present mental limits. "The mind's surmised and still unknown potential," says Dr. Cohen, "is our future. The experience called hallucinogenic will play a role in leading us into the future...
...seems curiously unprepared for the role in which he has been cast. Today this 22-year-old junior is acclaimed by his followers, and acknowledged by his opponents, as a charismatic orator whose public speaking has amassed powerful popular support at the Berkeley campus. Six months ago he was unknown to the students who now risk jail in support of the FSM, and he stuttered so badly that even his private conversation was difficult to listen to. "Everytime he raised his hand to speak, people in the class sort of shuddered and felt sorry for him," said a student...
...easy to criticise simply because the book could have done so much more. Indeed, there is so much unknown about the Radical Right that it should provide ambitious researchers and journalists with fertile fields for many years...