Word: mastered
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This year much of what Carter gets from Congress will be largely due to Byrd, a night-school lawyer who is a first-rate legislative technician. His job is to act as the Senate's traffic cop, controlling the flow of legislation and debate. A master of the Senate's rules and precedents, Byrd hustles through an endless round of meetings with committee chairmen, powerful Senate barons and rebellious mavericks, trying to head off trouble. He pleads with recalcitrant Senators for support, does favors to pacify them, like scheduling their pet bills, or tries to put off action on controversial...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, said Thursday the security around the dining hall has increased. "We're more careful about locking the dining hall when it's not in use," Kiely said...
...master was born 46 years ago as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in a small village in Madhya Pradesh province. Raised in the Jain religion, he worked as a journalist, photographer, and teacher of philosophy at Madhya State University before becoming a spiritual master in 1966. Today the Poona center is growing so swiftly that he is looking for roomier quarters. Rajneesh's lectures are taped and turned into a steady stream of books. One title: Above All, Don't Wobble. Rajneesh centers now operate in 22 nations...
...staff at Poona, whose only remuneration is free room and board, includes a range of behavior therapists whose services are urged on initiates by the master. Some of their courses are taxing indeed. Ma Prem Amida. who once conducted Arica therapy in the U.S. under the name of Enid Stevens, offers Intensive Enlightenment. Group members sit opposite partners and for 17 hours take turns in five-minute bouts answering the often painful question. "Who am I?" For three days, all other subjects are forbidden...
...tyrannical father, he lived alone in the fields and tended his family's flock until he turned 20. Only when he escaped to the Italian army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master), we see how Ledda overcame his punishing childhood and the cultural heritage of centuries to seize a life of intellectual endeavor. To their credit, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the brothers who directed the film, do not sentimentalize material that could easily collapse into bathos...