Springing Moser
Scientology Vs. the Psych Ward
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Gun Club: The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot
This was the last year we went there. Castro had taken over, and the island was awash with giddy, nervous enthusiasm. Banners hung in the plazas emblazoned with slogans like "Yankee go home" and "¡Cuba sí, yanqui no!" There were well-armed men in olive-drab fatigues on the street corners of the city, smiling and relaxed
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Little Moscow In New Jersey
This is not to say that art cannot be entertaining. Recently I spent time in the company of Nikolai Filatov, a Russian painter whose work is quite well known in his homeland. He’s currently making his residence in Jersey City and engaging in the Manhattan art scene. With Russia and the other former Soviet republics
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Hitler’s Niece
A Family Affair Every victim eventually becomes a bully, and every hero eventually becomes a bore. The most flamboyant illustration of these axioms in this century would be the zeitgeist himself, Adolf Hitler. No political figure in history has gotten more posthumous media exposure, and no political personality has been more thoroughly examined. Mussolini was
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How Old Is Your Soul?
Come Here Often? I used to be very concerned with the disposition of my soul. I got on a reincarnationist kick at an early age simply because it seemed to make more sense than any of the other religious scenarios. The notion of any kind of eternal penalty or reward for the deeds and misdeeds perpetrated
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Paranoid Field
Fringe Scientists Gather in Columbus I don’t know much about science, but I know what I like. I like Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Reich, L. Ron Hubbard, R.D. Laing. I love Bucky Fuller, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Feynman, Jacques Vallee—guys that make me think, whether I have linear detailed knowledge of what I’m thinking about or not. I’m in love with
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Tripping with Wilhelm Reich
American Odyssey by Wilhelm Reich edited by Mary Boyd Higgins Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 453 pages, $27 Orgone Player In the course of my long sojourn on the fringes of our society, way out where the buses don’t run too often, I’ve occasionally come across adherents of the orgone theory of Wilhelm Reich. Not often, because they are
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