Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by Edwin Carewe. Are We Civilised? is' stuffed to dullness with words. Farnum's harangue is illustrated with scraps of old historical films, mob and battle scenes, newsreel shots, flashes of prehistoric animals. Moses. Buddha. Confucius, Caesar, Christ. Mohammed, Columbus, Washington, Napoleon, Lincoln...
...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...
...sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
Girding up their Siamese loins, yellow-robed priests bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
Down through the snow-swept passes of Tibet last week drifted reports that yellow-hatted-monks had picked the 14th Dalai Lama, reincarnation of Buddha and successor to the late Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with...