Word: haring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edythe Kreshower, 47, a twice-divorced housewife in Queens, N. Y., was appalled when her daughter Merylee suddenly decided five years ago to join the Hare Krishna sect. Merylee had been finishing her second year at Queens College and hoped to become a teacher. But she took the Hindu name of Murti Vanya, became a nun in the sect's New York City temple, donned a saffron sari and joined her fellow devotees in chanting in the streets.* Convinced that Merylee, 24, had been brainwashed, her mother hired a private detective, Galen Kelly, to rescue...
...increasingly common ritual known as deprogramming, in which the convert to some strange-sounding, all-encompassing religion is subjected to threats and arguments until he gives up his new faith. After five days of this, Merylee pretended to accept Kelly's arguments, was released, got back to the Hare Krishna temple in Manhattan and charged Kelly and her mother with kidnaping...
When the charge went before the grand jury, however, Queens Prosecutor Michael Schwed accused not the deprogrammers but the Hare Krishnas themselves. The grand jury indicted two leaders of the sect, Angus Murphy and Harold Conley, for "unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick...
Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy threw out the indictments and summarily dismissed the case as a "direct and blatant violation" of constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom. Leahy stated that the Hare Krishnas' "indoctrination and constant chanting" may create "an inability to think, to be reasonable or logical," but that does not make it any less a religion. Both of the supposed victims voluntarily submitted to the tightly regulated life in the local temple, he said. The prosecutors admitted that no physical coercion was involved, and they failed to show any "deception" that, under...
...Hare [1951, 1963, 1975]--You are blessed with extraordinary good fortune and will inevitably attain success...