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...last third of the book, Lasing describes the experiences which trans-familiar to the religious mystic and to some psychotics. They are associated with the source of life, eternity, death-in-life, timelessness, knowledge of the void, and the divine founts of religion and ecstasy...
...Biafran civilians, and a huge increase in the amount of relief supplies. The report blasts the United States and the United Nations, except UNICEF, for their failure to aid the Biafrans. In a foreward to the report, Sen. Goodell states "It was our purpose to fill America's factual void" on Biafra. "May these findings bestir the world's leaders to prevent an indirect form of genocide...
...first show, Leven sought in The Light Company a "synthesis of every kind of movement in the theatre: non-objective, abstract, futuristic, surreal. We are to say--look this is a piece of stage, it is not real life. So, let's treat it in a context void of emotional restraints. Let's treat it like a cubist treats a piece of canvas. The Light Company should be a collage- type theatre, allowing a person to select what he wants...
...making his first tentative probes into near space. Now, his eye fixed on the moon, that cold and lifeless globe with its borrowed light, he was poised to soar beyond earth's atmosphere, beyond the 40,000-mile-deep magnetosphere and into a vast and trackless void. The moon flight was man's first great extraterrestrial venture...
British-born, Grey, 30, has been living in a void for 17 months, though he has been charged with no crime. He was confined to his Peking quarters in July 1967, in retaliation for the jailing of eight left-wing journalists for violating emergency regulations during last year's riots in Hong Kong. The Chinese, who once hinted that Grey would be released when the eight journalists were freed (they have been), now insist that 13 others seized since Grey's confinement must also be turned loose. Hong Kong authorities refuse to play the blackmail game...