Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chitrabhanu says he personally became disenchanted with a business life as a child, when he lost his mother, sister and later a friend. No wealth could have saved them from death, he says, so he started searching for the meaning of life. After consulting many gurus, he found one who told him to rely on his own experience rather than solely on the words of others. At age 20 he became a Jainist monk, and spent the next five years almost entirely in silence to determine the meaning of life...
...death, but it is like a mother who is feeding her baby on one breast, and when she realizes that on the left breast there is no milk, she takes it and is about to put it on the right, but meanwhile the baby cries for it feels lost. But no sooner does it cry than the mother puts it on the right one. So the human mind is like the baby: it cries when it has to leave the old body. But leaving the empty body it is put into a bright, beautiful body. So then I realized...
...Phil Ochs in a gold lame suit never made it, and after a few too many deaths -- the Kennedys, King, Malcolm and Medgar Evers, Allende and Jara--Ochs lost the ability even to try. He pulled himself out of John Train with enough time left to see a few friends. Then, years after he died, he hung himself. In the end, Eliot leaves him with Citizen Kane's epitaph: "it's become a very clear picture. He was the most honest man who ever lived, with a streak of crookedness a yard wide. He was a liberal and reactionary...
Harvard's Abby Meiselman and Leslie Miller, playing together for the first time, took the consolation route after an opening-round loss to the Princeton number two team. The Crimson team lost in the finals to the fourth-seeded Yale pair (who Roberts and Pierpont beat, 6-4, 7-5, in the first round), 6-0, 6-2. The Eli pair dominated net play and kept Harvard from ever getting into the match...
...Princeton team lost no time in getting off to a hot start. The first Tiger goal came when the defense hit the first home with a sharp pass while she was moving to the front of the cage. She snagged the pass and scored on a left-handed shovel shot...