Word: friends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard is not afraid to associate with the racist leaders of South Africa." Barry asked the sign-carrying crowd, "why are they afraid of a few young followers of the Rev. Moon?" Barry, who is a close friend of Moon, said CARP is "just trying to rent a hall that even Communists can rent...
Luce and TIME found that radio was a friend rather than a competitor. The magazine had been founded in 1923 on the faith that busy people would welcome a weekly distillation of their daily news, a concisely written guide that would put headlines in context, and garnish them with TIME'S vivid prose and Luce's strong opinions. Halberstam traces the magazine's success and its development far beyond this early formula...
There followed a period of drifting, to California, to Florida, but always back to Washington. He discovered how to use his fists, hung around with pugs (Jack Dempsey is still his best friend), boxed as an amateur and as a sparring partner. To his mother's horror, he accepted a bout as a professional, and won. But haunted by his father's nomadic, and futile, search for economic security, he returned again and again to law school, until on the last try he earned a degree...
Chitrabhanu says he personally became disenchanted with a business life as a child, when he lost his mother, sister and later a friend. No wealth could have saved them from death, he says, so he started searching for the meaning of life. After consulting many gurus, he found one who told him to rely on his own experience rather than solely on the words of others. At age 20 he became a Jainist monk, and spent the next five years almost entirely in silence to determine the meaning of life...
...continued to pour until the professor finally asked him, "What are you doing?" The tea has overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma and theology, logic and arguments. Whatever I pour into it now will overflow. There is no room left for anything to enter. Unless you empty your mind, what can I give...