Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your articles about Riesman, Brando and Toynbee have illuminated one of the cancers which is destroying our American society-this cancer being the psychological norm. We are afraid to be different since we might be called neurotic or "crazy." We are afraid to live according to our Judeo-Christian-Buddhist principles since such an infinitesimal number live in this way. I hope your articles have restored sight to the blind...
...Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, the devout Buddhist head of an overwhelm ingly Buddhist nation (TIME, Aug. 30), laid the cornerstone of a Student Chris tian Foundation building at Rangoon University. U Nu presented his hosts with a check for 5,000 kyats ($1,042), urged Burma's more than 18 million Buddhists and 600,000 Christians to do their "utmost to preserve religious tolerance...
...Fighters were forced to wear four-ounce gloves, bouts were limited to five three-minute rounds, and some basic rules were established (no biting, gouging, or kicking a man who was down). Today the sport is controlled by the national police department, and Thailand supports some 500 professional fighters. Buddhist bonzes (priests) box for exercise, and the prefight prayer is an important ritual...
...lured thousands of young girls off farms to work at $10 a month, and built his silk mills into Japan's sixth largest textile company. But honorable kindness, also meant that officials penned them up in their dormitories, opened their mail, blocked romance, forced them to attend Buddhist services and recite such catechisms as: "All this day I shall be happy to pour all my body and soul into an all-out effort...
Strike's End. Last week, under pressure from an outraged public and an alarmed government. Natsukawa gave up, wanly signed an agreement ending the 106-day strike. Natsukawa promised to observe union working hours, and to "decide rationally" the problems of mail censorship, dormitory restrictions and compulsory Buddhist ceremonies...