Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhism's strident inner contradictions were on display last week in a great red, orange and blue tent pitched in the Deer Park of Sarnath, India, where Buddha preached his first sermon 500 years before Christ. There some 150 Buddhist leaders from 25 nations gathered for the Seventh World Fellowship of Buddhists. Begun in 1950 as a kind of informal, monk-to-monk faith forum, this year's meeting often sounded more like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn provocations against...
...South Vietnamese delegation, it came armed with a statement describing the three years since the last fellowship meeting as "a terrible ordeal unprecedented in the annals of our history." It supported this with a barrage of oil paintings and photographs, plus a movie, A Message from Viet Nam, which was shown after a Sarnath Rotary Club tea. The visual aids all documented outrages suffered by the Buddhists in South Viet Nam, but somehow managed to avoid mentioning Communism, the Viet Cong, the U.S. or the war. Said the delegation: "The Unified Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation solemnly declares before the world that...
Last week, in the course of the bland functioning of machinery that exchanges Soviet and U.S. scholars, Rozhdestvensky and four other Soviet writers came to Yale University, towed by Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College. Just as international fellowship was beginning to ripen, a chap burst in to charge the Soviet poet with "almost pathological anti-Americanism," which he documented by quoting the poems. The rude fellow was Charles Moser, 29, assistant professor of Slavic languages at Yale, and a graduate exchange student at the University of Leningrad five years ago. He argued that "to give the Russians...
...Court of St. James's, "that though I have worked at journalism, I am here primarily because I am a millionaire." But it was as a journalist that "Jock" Whitney had been invited to Colby College, in Waterville, Me., to accept Colby's honorary Elijah Lovejoy fellowship.* And it was very much as a journalist-and publisher-that Whitney spoke...
...Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, North Carolina, Duke, and California are busily challenging Ivy League supremacy (that's why California heat waves make Brewster happy). The magazine admits that "at least for now, the Ivy League schools seem to hold the edge" in endowments, faculty salaries, libraries, faculty-student ratio, fellowship recipients, and alumni listed in Who's Who and Poor's Register...