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...Your Essay, "That New Black Magic" [Sept. 27], mentions that: "Many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying 'Om!' " This is very true indeed! Occasionally I like to chant "Om, om, om," or "Aum, aum, aum," in a continuous solemn singsong tone; then I feel very strong spiritual vibrations swelling within me, as I am very sensitive by nature. I also tried chanting "Eloi, Eloi, Eloi," in like manner, and it could also give me personal peace...
...hecklers were mostly black kids from the high school which was next door to the Civic Center, and as Wallace began to speak, they started to chant, "Wallace is a pig! Say it now!" They swayed and clapped rhythmically to the chant, and a few boys came to the back and danced to the beat of the chanting. From the other end of the hall, Wallace threatened the hecklers. "You'd better have your day now, because after November 5 you're through in this country." From both sides, the whites howled their disapproval, and shook their fists...
...students, panic and pain eventually give way to an unearthly sense of tranquillity. After meditation, the striking of a bell signals the start of a 20-minute Zen service. Although a few of these sessions are partly in English, the early morning one is in Japanese. Collectively, the students chant the Prajnā-Pāramita Sutra: "Form is not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness. Emptiness is the form...
...Democratic Society, showed up for registration, and a group of S.D.S. militants demonstrated against the university's "racist and militaristic policies." Later, a band of students scuffled briefly with campus police; 400 radicals broke into a campus building to hold an illegal rally, and gathered to chant slogans outside the university president's mansion. In spite of these threatening incidents, a measure of optimism prevailed at Morningside Heights that classes might resume without any further troubles...
...legitimate cause is something that I believe in, but when thousands of otherwise levelheaded men and women risk beatings in an effort to defame the Chicago police department, which is all that was accomplished, they make a mockery of anything the protest movement has ever stood for. The hollow chant "the whole world is watching" seems to acquire a double meaning...