Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long rooted in Japan, Zen is an ancient Chinese technique of mind-breaking discipline aimed at freeing the will. All things bubble along in one interrelated continuum, says Zen. Why try to "grasp" or "stop" them? The real problem is spontaneity: how to "let go" and "go with" the permanent impermanence. The Zen disciple must destroy his ego-consciousness, until his real self calmly floats on the world's confusion like a pingpong ball skimming down a mountain stream...
Getting Together. Over port and whisky at Paris' Hotel Matignon last week, the two Prime Ministers reminisced amiably about their World War II experiences in North Africa. When they got down to business, the British were pleased by De Gaulle's grasp of what they consider present-day realities. He seemed aware that France was not pulling its weight in NATO, but wanted to exact more say for France in Atlantic councils as his price for more cooperation. The British listened with what diplomats call sympathy (concealing their private misgivings) to De Gaulle's insistence that France...
About halfway through the ninth grade the Walden students are ready to study man, but they do so first not as historians but as physical anthropologists, noting those details in his physical development, like prehensile grasp, stereoptican view, speech, and erect posture, which distinguish him from other primates...
TIME has again demonstrated its brilliant grasp of public school problems. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from your presentation is to substitute courses in wrestling for the professional courses now required...
...most difficult work on the program, for both the orchestra and the audience was the Berg Kammerkonzert. Mr. Greenebaum performed it twice, before and after intermission. It warranted repetition, partly because the piece rests heavily on formal devices which are almost impossible to grasp on the first hearing, partly because it is an interesting and seldom-played composition, but mostly because the second performance was far better than the first. The orchestra seemed surer of the rhythms, and their initial timidity had entirely worn...