Word: khans
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This is the "Cosmic Mass," performed last week at New York's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The show (admission: $5) was conceived two years ago by Pir ("Elder") Vilayat Inayat Khan, 59, British son of an Indian mystic who founded the Sufi Order in the West (Sufism is the mystical movement within Islam). Pir Vilayat, a well-known guru in the spiritual counterculture, now heads the order, which has practically divorced itself from Islam. The message, one that Pir Vilayat implored his audience to spread, is "the unity of all religions...
...Lisa?" Sheed asks aimlessly. And elsewhere: "It was almost as hard to tell how much Ali was really suffering as it is with his fellow Capricorn Nixon-I don't believe in Astrology, but... ?" and, "He reigns on in splendid detachment, like the last Romanoff or the Aga Khan-what is an Aga anyway? Is it a place or something...
...They have all the guns," he said of the West Pakistanis at the time. "They can kill me, but let them know that they cannot kill the spirit of the 75 million people of Bengal." Soon afterward, Pakistan's dictator, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, packed Mujib off to a desert prison cell under sentence of death. In a brutal military pogrom, the West Pakistanis proceeded to massacre 3 million Bengalis; 10 million others fled to India for refuge. After India entered the war and crushed Pakistani forces nine months later, Yahya was himself placed under house arrest...
...Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
...WANING light of the imperial sun the great Kublai Khan listens to the words of a young explorer from Venice. The Khan's dominions have grown in scope and compass out of understanding, their diverse, unimagined wonders lost in last formlessness. As Marco Polo describes the fantastic cities he has visited in his wanderings, his words are a dam against despair. The emperor hopes to discern in them, "through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing...