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...author is a junior living in Lowell House. She is a member of the Baha'i Faith and secretary of the Baha'i Association at Harvard and Radcliffe...
Bihari continued in the practice assigned him, feeling confident in the stature of his teacher. Later, at the suggestion of an Avadhuta, he saw Baha, the Guru, while on a vacation journey. The sight of Baba mystified him at first-here was this apparently ordinary man, clad in simple white clothes, with short-cropped hair and eyeglasses, but dignified adults were breaking into tears and near-hysterics in his presence. But later Bihari began to feel the Guru's presence himself, and after receiving personal contact became devoted to him and Ananda Marga...
...often poor, and especially in the first act, the conductor has had him sing much too slowly. Ernest Triplett as Nick Shadow, Rakewell's servant, dominates the production, with both a good voice and an understanding of his role that makes him also a strong actor. Eunice Alberts as Baha, the bearded lady, is a fine comic heroine, with a rich vibrato that nicely complements her outlandishly ornate costume. Irene Elvin as Anne Truelove, Tom's true love is a fine singer, although not as good an actress as Miss Alberts...
...ambitious son of a successful used-car dealer, Allen, 39, is one of nine American leaders of the Baha'i faith, a Persian religion resembling Unitarianism that advocates world brotherhood and universal education. A Stanford graduate, he joined the ed school faculty there, ran the Peace Corps training program, and continually tried to inspire public schools to break up their rigid schedules. The "modular" class system he advocates−16-to 20-minute periods that can be endlessly recombined for different subjects−is now used in 500 schools, from Temple City, Calif., to Sarasota...
...Baha'is see the major steps in their future in three great canvasses. The first is a period of persecution. The second, called the time of the "Lesser Peace," finds the world, exhausted with disaster, coming together in a loose, imperfect way while increasingly looking to Baha'is for guidance. The third, called the time of the "Most Great Peace," realizes the Baha'i "Theomony." Some believers enthusiastically look forward to all three periods. Last June, the Baha'i religion was banned in Iraq. Tomorrow, the world. The day after tomorrow, the Kingdom...