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Skirts rise, movie screens widen, and astronauts walk in space, but in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden it is 1898-and will be until the circus leaves town. Last week the Greatest Show on Earth came north with the birds, bringing its customary amalgam of animal and human acts from Europe and America. Some concessions are made to the 20th century: there is an elephant production number entitled "This Is New -Pussycat," and 50 sumptuously undercostumed ballerinas go through the Radio City Music Hall bit (step, two, three, whirl, kick) to the tune of What's New, Pussycat...
Before a student's ordination, the exchange program at other theological schools would also widen his experience, Coburn said. At present, four seminaries in the Boston area -- Harvard, Andover Newton, Boston University, and the Episcopal Theological School -- allow cross-registration for courses, he added, but only a small minority of their students take advantage of the system...
...take drugs for a while and come out know-why you don't need them, then you have really learned. "There are many different levels of consciousness, and the down undrugged world is only one of them. Experimenting with drugs," he concluded, "is the easiest way to widen your perspectives...
This may be a rather naive form of hubris. But even the more cautious futurists are caught up in a renewed sense of human freedom. "The function of prediction," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is not, as often stated, to aid social control, but to widen the spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that...
...resulting political struggle has been one of the most divisive in recent Cambridge history. The Curry supporters seem to have done everything possible to widen the split in the Council. They have constantly harried the new mayor, Daniel J. Hayes Jr. Though Hayes' inexperience with the gavel has resulted in some parliamentary mistakes, much of the needling he has received has been unnecessary and pointless. The Curry supporters have delibrately prolonged the debate and unearthed details of political maneuvering that have been, for the most part, irrelevant and embarrassing to all the councillors...