Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which speaks in terms of freeing the spirit from domination by the body, Aurobindo stressed perfecting the body by bringing the spirit more completely into it. Rather than looking toward an escape from the cycle of existence, he envisioned a this-worldly utopia of new consciousness. "It is the descent of the new consciousness that is the stamp and seal of my discipline," he wrote. Like Teilhard de Chardin, Aurobindo had a huge revolutionary hope for mankind. His "new" consciousness would be a "supramental" state, man's next step on the ladder of evolution. Aurobindo reasoned that a synthesis...
This is the physical setting of a venturesome and exciting revival of Endgame by Director André Gregory and the Manhattan Project. The same group two seasons ago made a vertiginous descent into the Freudian maelstrom of Alice in Wonderland, soon due to run again in repertory with Endgame...
...inalterable drift through unpalatable proposals to reform student disciplining methods, and declining income from the Federal government. Bok discussed none of these, but concentrated on undergraduate education. In the context of the last few years--which occupations, controversies and the Washington connection have helped define--his performance was a descent into noncontroversial platitudes while ducking political issues...
...City is an inferno with eerie similarities to the surface world that Reuben has just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...
...first, Western seismologists suspected that the change in velocity was peculiar to the geology of Central Asia: it seemed unlikely that the phenomenon could be used as a predicting tool in other quake-prone areas. Yash Aggarwal, a 30-year-old graduate student of Indian descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch...