Word: lotus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIGHS like the stems of banana trees, hands like opening lotus flowers-such, in Buddhist legend, is the formula for sculpting a statue of Buddha. See ART, Inspired Copyists. pHILOCTETES was an illustrious Greek warrior who received his in vincible weapons of war - bow and ar rows - from his dying friend Hercules...
...Arthur Koestler's new book, The Lotus and the Robot: His main conclusion-that it is useless to look to Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance-runs counter to fashionable Western intellectual longings. See RELIGION, Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis...
...doing things (he resigned from the Communist Party in 1938), Hungarian-born Author Koestler, 55, journeyed to India and Japan last year to investigate the yogi's. He came back with a cargo of provocative conclusions that are causing controversy in Britain around his new book, The Lotus and the Robot, to be published in the U.S. next spring. His main conclusion runs counter to longstanding, if vague, Western intellectual belief in the East's great spiritual superiority. Says Koestler: "To look at Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance has become as much an anachronism...
...body to its four-speed gearbox and cat-footed suspensions. Last week a buzzing swarm of the precocious big-little cars performed before an audience of 5,000 at Lime Rock, Conn, in a battle of agility and speed that was finally won by Harry Carter in a Lotus with an average speed of 78.18 m.p.h. At dozens of the top tracks across the U.S. and Europe, the newest craze in auto racing is Formula Junior competition, a kind of half-pint Grand Prix...
...Junior is worrying many of its original backers. Many of the first cars were slapped together by backyard mechanics, and the races had a pleasantly informal air. Now the winning cars come almost exclusively from more than 20 Italian, English, French and U.S. firms-including renowned racing names like Lotus, Cooper and OSCA-who are building the new cars at peak capacity. Europeans are grooming their Formula Junior cars with Grand Prix care and cash. When New York's grand old Vanderbilt Cup was revived in June after a 22-year lapse, the promoters shrewdly chose the Formula Junior...