Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paradoxically, TM is also criticized for being too practical and not meditative enough. Most Hindu gurus, for instance, teach one or another form of yoga, which combines practical exercises with meditation to achieve union with Brahma?the ultimate reality or Absolute. Yoga itself is the Sanskrit word for a yoking...
IT IS A TRAGEDY for all of us that the supposedly feminine qualities of sensitivity, compassion and compromise are so undesirable. If the women's movement could, and, in many cases, I think it has, serve to open up these qualities to men, rather than reinforcing the desirability of ambition...
American spy-story stereotypes about Eastern Europe are not far from accurate. The security and police systems were as tight and pervasive as I had been led to believe they would be. The bureaucracy is massive and often impenetrable. Freedom of travel, of information, and of expression are virtually non...
But the everyone-out-there-hates-us theory is not warranted. Although there is general agreement that New York has been mismanaged in recent years, there is also a countervailing compassion for the inhabitants of the tottering city. Even Boston's Mayor White relented sufficiently to say not long...
It is hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring...