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...Thomas prescription for the future would be a curious amalgam of proposals by Lyndon Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Milton Friedman, among others, with the single general rule that "I would make it very hard for anyone to live without working...
...guard with burp guns at the ready while a barrage of flares, tracer bullets and phosphorous shells exploded and flashed eerily in the distance. But the singers sang out lustily. The audience, Vietnamese troops with rifles cradled in their arms, listened intently to their next song, Raghupati, one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite hymns...
...attributed the success of the movement to the tremendous personality of its leader, Mahatma Ghandi. "I'm not a very religious man," he said, "but most of the religion I know came from my long walks with Ghandi...
Texas liberals, who are unhappy with their Governor because he settles for so many half-loaves and refuses to talk like a liberal, are scathingly portrayed as a cynical, ingrown coterie that spends most of its time boozing and rutting. Fenstemaker, groans one liberal, is "Mahatma Gandhi and Rasputin, the Prince of Darkness and the goddam Mystic Angel." But he concedes that the old fox "knew what absolutely had to be done; he could engage himself and then withdraw without losing that commanding vision...
...supposed brilliance, although he cared enough about an education to walk eight miles a day to school, sometimes taking a short cut by swimming the Ganges River, carefully strapping his books to his head before entering the water. He made his first total commitment at 16, when Mahatma Gandhi spoke to students in Benares. From Gandhi, says Shastri, "I learned of the moral aspect of life-to serve your country without love of power and authority, if possible." To fight for freedom, the lad quit high school three months before he was due to graduate, and, in all, was arrested...