Word: mandala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other attractions this week include Roberta Peters, soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bethany Beardslee, an expert on vocal techniques, the Mandala folk dance group; a poetry reading by Samuel Menashe; and a midnight jazz performance by the Jes Grew Revue at midnight on Friday...
...have been expected to occupy all their time, army colonels in South Viet Nam operated a string of civilian enterprises that included banking, construction and transportation, until a government crackdown earlier this year forced them out of business (TIME, April 3). The military in Indonesia owns a domestic airline, Mandala, bus services and banks. For sheer scope, drive and staying power, however, the business offensive of Turkey's army is in a class by itself. Turkish military chiefs openly and aggressively run what amounts to the country's biggest and most pervasive conglomerate...
...mythic order. When this in fact occurs in Tournier's book, the effect is one not of artistic revelation but of melodramatic kitsch: a young Auschwitz refugee turns into a Star of David; the star, in turn, spins off to the heavens as a more generalized mandala symbolizing a harmonious universe...