Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having become discouraged with the state of affairs in the Western World, bewildered with anxiety for its future, novelist Arthur Koestler decided to set forth on a "spiritual pilgrimage" to the East, hoping to find some solution to the world's problems. The Lotus and the Robot is the result of that journey...
...factory team. When the cars went off, Von Trips quickly faltered and fell behind. He had a history of first-lap trouble; fellow racers said of him: "If he gets past the first lap, he's all right." He was fifth, behind three Ferraris, and a forest-green Lotus driven by Britain's Jimmy Clark...
...between brake pedal and accelerator on his little Emeryson speedster, shot off the road at high speed and wound up in a hay bale. With that kind of competition, Scottish Farmer Jimmy Clark, 25, who had never won a big race before, had no trouble bringing his Formula One Lotus home in front. ¶Just in time to give the last of the Easter tourists a helping hand with their hotel bills, a couple of long shots came home in the first and second races at Florida's Gulf stream Park, paid Daily Double winners $4,580.70-biggest return...
...late capital, General Sounthone Pathammavong, army commander in chief under Souvanna, announced that he had formed a "temporary military government." Vientiane Radio told little of what else went on, but gave its listeners some inscrutably Oriental advice on how to carry on under the circumstances: "Do not bruise lotus blossoms; do not muddy clear waters; do not anger frogs; do not harm little frogs...
...bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands like opening lotus flowers. The body as a whole was to have the absolute peace of nirvana - and the fiery energy of flame...