Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pelikan's second volume, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (329 pages; $16.50), a careful distillation of Eastern Orthodoxy's contribution to Christian thought. Princeton University Press will soon bring out a massive survey called Religious Movements in Contemporary America (900 pages; $25), which ranges from Scientology to Krishna Consciousness. An earlier entry from Yale University Press, Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom's huge but very readable A Religious History of the American People (1,158 pages; $19.50), has already become a standard...
...Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people hurrying...
...Died. V.K. Krishna Menon, 77, virulently anti-Western former Indian Defense Minister and delegate to the United Nations; of an apparent heart attack; in New Delhi. Son of a wealthy lawyer, Menon was an ascetic, acerbic, anticolonialist firebrand who lived in London and agitated against British rule in India for 28 years until independence came in 1947. His intimate friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, led to a series of high-level government posts. At the U.N. in the 1950s, Menon regularly scourged U.S. "imperialism," although he condoned Moscow's suppression of the 1956 Hungarian...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...Songwriter Martin Mull is the only newcomer who is literally a rock comic, laying his words on music. His hit record is in fact an instrumental called Dueling Tubas. His other folk-rock ditties include Ventriloquist Love ("Whenever I kiss you, your lips never move") and the ultimate Hare Krishna lover's gambit: "I made love to you in a former life...