Word: ghandi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes Kucinich can sound like a stereotyped left-intellectual: in his Playboy interview he drops allusions to 1984, Ghandi, Prometheus Unbound, Salvador Dali and Woody Allen. But Kucinich grew up in a large Catholic family in the inner city. His father is a truck driver who quit school after the ninth grade. As mayor, Kucinich forced business leaders to meet with him at Tony's Diner. He hopes to unite blacks and white ethnics under his banner of "urban populism." It is this vision of "the coalition of the future" that makes Kucinich unique...
Chandrajit Yadav, a former minister of the Indian National Congress Party in Indira Ghandi's government. Jose Carlos Lobo, Mozambique's ambassador to the United Nations, and Helen Hadj Petrou, member of the presidium of the Greek National Peace Movement, are scheduled to attend the conference...
...reflections on Ghandi, George Orwell once penned words that Cox seems to have followed: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent." Given the fact that Cox has found a balance of tone between skepticism and sensitivity, his theories are that much more convincing. His own experiences with the "New Orientalism" have not diminished Cox's Christianity. Rather, he has found out not only how valuable the traditionally Judeo-Christian meditative traditions are, but also how similar they are to many Eastern practices. This is not to say that the New Orientalism's importance lies in showing...
Henry David Thoreau will not speak this week. Nor will Mahatma Ghandi. Timothy Leary may speak, but not in Boston, and only Bob the Bagman could understand him anyway...
...writes, he is also president of the Soil Association, one of Britain's oldest organic farming leagues. Twenty years as chief economist and head of planning for the British National Coal Board shaped his opinions on nationalized industry. A former Rhodes scholar, Schumacher is also a close student of Ghandi, non-violence and ecology...