Word: beane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...
Rather than lay out $400 for an off-brand color TV that may have to be replaced in a few years, consumers are choosing $600 and $700 Sonys, the industry's standard of excellence, whose sales are up substantially. At Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some...
Some, however, had more refined tastes. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said he reads the L.L. Bean catalogue. Why? "Because it reminds me there are other lives than the sedentary...
...Tatum bean to scare him from throwing inside from that day forward...
...another sound--the rumbling bones of the Mathers, Cottons and Sewalls as they turn over in their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that in the land of the Bean and the Cod, he who is called Summus Pontifex, Vicarius Petri, Servus Servorum Dei, Dominus Deus, Nostra Papa, and addressed as Sanctissime Pater should be here. Their amazement is only matched...