Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very worried about the dangers of a kind of political activity that ignores the ironies and ambiguities of life, including political life. And I am worried about the apparently inevitable things that happen to all institutions, the legal calcifications and rigidities that occur in even the most militantly free and flexible of groups once they have obtained power, once they start consolidating themselves and become self-protective. These are problems that I think transcend even the New Left; they're human problems...
...give you an example of the kind of agonizing I am talking about, how unnecessary and irrelevant it is. I happen to drive a sports car. When I first started working in the South ten years ago, I knew that I couldn't go with that sports car into some of these communities because I had decided that that would interfere with my relationship with these people. Well, it took me a long time to feel free enough to get to know some of these children well enough so that they could visit us in our home...
When I arrived at my place of initiation, then, my heart was beating fast and I expected wonderful things to happen to me. I removed my shoes at the entrance of the house, as I was told. When the assistant, with her secret, joyous smile, motioned me upstairs, I followed her wordlessly up and into a small bare room, where I was to wait...
...watched, mute and fascinated, Jerry offered a short ceremony in thanks giving to Guru Dev, Maharishi's teacher. Then abruptly he knelt down, and motioned me to do the same. There was perfect silence. I felt numb and a little scared--what was about to happen? Then, suddenly, Jerry gave me my mantra--the sound on which I was to meditate thereafter--the essence of transcendental meditation. Although mantras are usually chanted aloud in India, meditators here are forbidden to utter theirs. I repeated it after him, until he told me to begin thinking...
...move that at least will assure publication of all the facts: unlike the stewards, the commission must hold an open hearing. And if that appeal fails, Fuller & Co. can then take their case to the courts (possibly all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court), where anything could happen. Dancer's Image could even win the Kentucky Derby after all. Last October, an appellate court in Ohio ruled that Butazolidin could not be regarded as an illegal drug-because it had not been proved to affect a horse's performance in a race...