Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to produce what Benson has termed the "relaxation response." The effect can be achieved just by following four simple steps: assume a comfortable position, close your eyes, concentrate on a single word, sound or phrase, and cast off all other thoughts. Instead of using the traditional mantra of TM, Benson's patients are encouraged to select a sound or image that appeals to them personally. One of his Jewish patients focuses on the word shalom; a Greek chants "Kyrie eleison " (Lord have mercy upon us); a Catholic recites the prayer "Lord Jesus have mercy "; others evoke the response...
...antistyle: the incendiary insults, the compulsive tattooing, the head shaved as if recuperating from a Nazi lobotomy. Punk admits to no past; it anticipates no future. And the present is only impulse-the 300 heartbeats a minute of the raucous new rock. This music is rigorously monotonous, a mantra of bully nihilism; the lyrics are surrealist graffiti, spat out indistinctly. Director Spheeris occasionally supplies English subtitles for these messages from a lost world. In interviews she plays the sympathetic den mother to these kids barely out of their teens, and they respond, most of them, with patience and decorum...
...Britain, economic policy dominates all else, and Thatcher repeats her tenets like a mantra: curb inflation, increase productivity, cut spending, restore incentive. She pleads for time-at least two more years-to let her new "freedoms" work, but even among allies there is some skepticism. Complains a Tory newspaper publisher: "She didn't tell us it would be this bad." Her own Treasury ministers warn that much rougher tunes lie ahead, and some are queasy about the next election, even though it is probably four years away. The statistics of Thatcher's first year are grim. Inflation doubled...