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Glass's next operatic opportunity came in 1978, with a $25,000 commission from the city of Rotterdam for Satyagraha. Glass decided the work would be sung in Sanskrit, a mellifluous, vowel-rich language, to a text drawn from the Bhagavad-Gita. As his subject he chose Mohandas Gandhi's early years in South Africa, during which Gandhi developed his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. If the elemental Einstein was Glass's breakthrough, the gentle, serene Satyagraha was the first major work of his mature style. By poignantly transforming a flute line from the second scene into Gandhi's eloquent apostrophe...
Everyone can use an aphorism. I wish I could remember one, something especially Delphic or brilliant from The Consolation of Philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran. Charlie Chan said: "Evidence like nose on anteater." Does that count? Russians are better at such things. Once in my earshot Lillian Hellman observed: "A crazy person is crazy all the time." I have frequently found that valuable, particularly when in the company of a crazy person who is, for the moment, lucid. Confucius said: "Filial piety is the constant requirement of Heaven." That seems to me an excellent aphorism...
...lollipops in front of it. Trudeau was the sweetest of candidates, a perennial choice but a bit of a Catch-22. Fifteen years brought few political alternatives. Conservative leaders Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark were no match; what are molasses and oatmeal compared to the Jesuit-trained, Bhagavad-Gita believing wooer of Margaret, flower child and Rolling Stone groupie...
...secret Los Alamos laboratory, he led-and occasionally pushed and shoved-an extraordinary gathering of the country's top minds in constructing the instrument that exploded atop a tower in the desert. When the test bomb detonated, he silently repeated to himself a line from the Bhagavad-Gita Hindu devotional poem: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds...
Although an international star, Stratas shuns fancy limousines after her performances, trudging up Broadway to a rambling old West Side apartment crammed with memorabilia. A multilinguist, she reads voraciously (among her current projects: the Bhagavad-Gita). At home, she munches on pecans grown on the ramshackle 50-acre Florida farm she recently bought. Her sometimes tempestuous private life, no less than her professional one, is marked by what she describes as "a restlessness, a need to explore, to find out, to learn...