Word: mantra
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...from eggs, which they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra is somewhat akin to the famous repetitive "Jesus prayer" of Eastern Orthodoxy...
...Indian guru who once taught the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the International Meditation Society. Alone with his own mentor in an atmosphere made mystical by candlelight, incense and the chanting of Sanskrit phrases, the neophyte is taught the word that he has come to learn: his specially assigned mantra, an apparently meaningless sound that is really an ancient Hindu incantation...
...days," says Potts gnomically, "any sculptor who wanted to do his thing had to do it through the figure. Well, I just happen to be saying what I want to say through a car." A student of transcendental meditation, he describes the car as his mantra: a means to self-knowledge through prolonged application of craft to an unreal problem. It represents a process, not a solution. "Potts," says Art Critic Thomas Garver, in the catalogue introducing the car, "regards the true work of art to be the artist himself. The car is not a public object but a building...
...Angeles Times story on the city's mayor, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Sam Yorty, Actress Candice Bergen scored a small scoop: Sam and Betts Yorty both practice meditation. The mayor does it yoga-style in the bathroom after a shower; Betts does it with a mantra (the repetition of a syllable pattern). "I've been meditating for 30 years," Sam told Candy. "I regard it as just concentrated prayer. It lets me gather up strength for the day to withstand the barbs in the Times...
...surprising author of that cable was former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the same Rusk of the hawkish eyeball that never blinked, the Buddha whose monotonously repeated mantra of justification seemingly never changed through the years of escalation. Contrary to his historic image, did he oppose the first loop in the endless spiral into Indochina? In an interview from his home in Athens, Ga., Rusk broke his long silence. He told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook that he had "no present recollection" of the cable, but "I might well have written...