Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers who like to hoard their Hollywood gleanings like green stamps, Hedda has a wildly scattershot collection: Clark Gable had not a tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared...
...Years of Wandering. Lanza, often called "the Gandhi of Europe." is a Sicilian-born nobleman who can trace his family history to Emperors of the Holy...
Roman Empire. He was raised a Roman Catholic, lost his faith while in his teens, and regained it at the age of 30, after he received a doctorate in philosophy from Pisa University. Lanza wandered through Europe and the Near East for six years as a self-styled vagabond, finally arriving in India in 1936. Gandhi accepted him as a disciple and nicknamed him Shantidas (servant of peace). Lanza spent 18 months studying with Gandhi, returned to France to marry and write poetry. "When one doesn't have an automobile, one gets interested in poetry," he says. Gandhi believed...
...Natural, Peaceful, Wise." Although all but one of Lanza's current companions are Roman Catholics, the Ark has no official connection with that church, and membership is open to anyone who believes in God. The 20 permanent adult members of the community have taken vows, and live under an oath of poverty. Husbands and wives live together, are primarily responsible for the education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated...
...Lanza knows that the Companions of the Ark are turning their backs on the times, but he believes that it is the times, and not the companions, that are out of joint. "The crowding together of masses of people in uninhabitable big cities will, sooner or later, provoke a return to the country," he says. "The survivors of cataclysms soon to come, caused by the hand of man, will oblige humanity to regroup itself for a simple, natural, peaceful and wise life. So we shall have had a head start on humanity...