Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some communes actually form compromises with the nuclear family. Nowhere is this point better made than at Lama, a contemporary commune 18 miles north of Taos, N. Mex., which was re-revisited last week by Correspondent David DeVoss after an absence of 19 months...
...grandson of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1924 and became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation of marine life; Floridians also remember...
...have noted, Watson, in The Adventure of the Empty House, that after my disappearance, I wandered for two years throughout Tibet spending some time with the High Lama. Whilst in that country, I studied the space-time continuum and learned to forecast the future...
...defensive, suspicious, false tory position. Defensive, because business, the great innovator in all else, is popularly conceived of as opposing political innovation. Suspicious, because its distrust of politicians is exceeded only by its contempt for them. False, because a tory businessman is as unnatural as a liberal Dalai Lama. You often hear that silly remark that the least government is the best government-silly because, like the concept of anarchy, it is Utopian. It will come true in heaven, in which time and place it will be equally true that the best business is no business...
...Rama Lama Ding Dong" was much more popular than the automobile for which the group was named. Which group sang this song...