Word: chariot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamentalist Buddhists stuck to Buddha's narrow, escapist but arduous path and came to be known, to their distaste, as the Hinayana, or "lesser chariot." They prefer the name Theravada, or "doctrine of the elders." The "greater chariot," or Mahayana, branch attempted to enlarge and socialize the Middle Way. Their Buddha became less the example who must be emulated, more the savior who had mystically improved the lot of all mankind. By giving nearly equal weight to concern for others and to withdrawal for the self, Mahayana provided a platform for political engagement as Theravada could...
This grass-roots power has taken a twofold?if not an eightfold?path. In the more agitated countries, the monks have used it as a way into politics; in the quieter lands, all of the lesser-chariot persuasion, they have used it to stay out of politics, merely adding a conservative prop to support existing institutions...
Patrick White has offered his native Australia an embarrassment of literary riches. As to the riches, there is no doubt. White's six novels, from Happy Valley (1939) to Riders in the Chariot (TIME, Oct. 6, 1961), make up Australia's greatest fictional creation. Nor is there any doubt as to the embarrassment. White's bleak and austere vision is deeply antipathetic to the semiofficial Australian credo with its jovial good cobbery, manly democratic virtues and no-nonsense sex. White sees Australia, like his defeatist characters, as drifting toward a lost-generation doom of "impregnable negation, where...
...heavily guarded. The old Brandenburg gate stands in its grandeur as a reminder of the transience of power over this great city. The shock and revulsion of seeing its impaired beauty, half hidden by the wall, is tempered by the remembrance of the history it has witnessed. The chariot now astride the gate is the same one which was once borne triumphantly into Paris by Napoleon...
Beyond Whitman, the poems poignantly betray Roethke's consciousness, like Andrew Marvell's, of "Time's winged chariot hurrying near," and Roethke cannot even playfully think of love without remembering death. The Wish for a Young Wife is characteristic...