Word: gandhis
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Obey the Law. An advocate of militant passive resistance against segregation. Pennsylvania-born Lawson is the son of a Methodist minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent, says he, is the key to "social dynamism." The lack of this quality, he adds, is what ails India...
...business district. Underneath a gaudy orange canopy, a gaunt, hawk-nosed old man in a homespun dhoti and sandals talked, beamed when children rushed up to get his autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...liability was shrewdly emphasized by Nehru himself, who during a 20-minute courtesy call on C.R. last week ironically remarked: "I've come to see how young you are looking." So frail that he moves about leaning on stout young lieutenants, for all the world like a resurrected Gandhi, C.R. admittedly has a limited political future...
...communities. In five weeks, Negro "sit-in" demonstrations at segregated lunch counters had raced from North Carolina to South Carolina to Virginia to Florida to Tennessee and into Deep South Alabama. A unique protest against Jim Crow kindled by four college freshmen in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22], the Gandhi-like Negro civil disobedience campaign, without any apparent central organized direction, continued to spread...