Word: mehta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door. He has tried, on occasion, to translate into action his vague and intensely personal theories about socialism, e.g., his plan to spread farm cooperatives across the land. Snapped the Indian Express: "This is not economic realism; this is economic rubbish." Even socialist leaders such as Asoka Mehta complain that for ten years India has been plagued by socialist slogans, "and what have we got? Nothing." Seemingly, the only purpose the slogans and all the patronizing remarks about "the private sector" have served is to frighten away foreign investors...
After two weeks and fifty hours of music, Conductors Steinberg and Pritchard agreed on three "equal merit" awards, signifying that no single winner stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...Christian preaching, which invariably leads to a point where a decision is called for. While the evangelist's teaching may be accepted and his good work appreciated, the final appeal for a decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks for most Hindu religious leaders when he says: "By all means discuss your faith with us, share your views and your experience with us, but India would like to suggest that the true missionary is one who, by both example and precept, helps the other to live...
...Received Indian Ambassador G. L. Mehta to discuss next month's visit to this country of Prime Minister Nehru...
Resentment & Rupture. Declaring that her eyes had been opened by Krishnamurti's teachings, Mrs. Mehta had told her husband she would live a celibate life, and had moved into the dressing room. Judge Eric Weston (one of the few remaining Britons on India's bench) denied Mrs. Mehta's petition. He dryly observed: "I do not think there is any room for doubt that the teachings [of Krishnamurti] suggesting revolt of the wife from her doormat position must have had their effect upon her mind . . . This led to her refusal to carry on marital relations with...