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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mehta, 36, is an Indian-born, Cambridge-educated former teacher of Greek tragedy. She has clarifying things to say about those who think that life is a bed of roses and those who believe it is a bed of nails: "For us [Hindus], eternal life is death-not in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Opium as the opiate of the people is not a new story; blending religion, drugs and pop culture in an ancient culture is. When Allen Ginsberg made his pilgrimage to India in 1962, his influence was limited to the handful of people who read his poetry. When the Beatles headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Not all Mehta's observations are that amusing. A French couple arrive at their consulate with their dead baby. They demand and get money for the infant's funeral but then leave the body at a crematorium with a note that reads, "A Present for the French Consul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The American student nodded sagely and sat down, grasping the moral significance of nuclear war for the first time."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

For 75 years audiences have regarded Peter Pan as child's play. In fact, the work now enchanting a new generation on Broadway is not fantasy but tragedy. Nor is it, as the subtitle declares, about a "boy who wouldn't grow up." It is about a man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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