Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first members of Krishna Consciousness were attracted to the movement when they heard the swami speak in Boston two years ago. One man, whose spiritual name means 'Householder, Servant of Krishna," said of his involvement in the movement. "It's fully satisfying." He has been a member for a year and a half...
...movement requires an austere and disciplined life. Members follow four rules: no sexual relations outside of marriage, no intoxicants (drugs, alcohol, coffee, or cigarettes), no gambling, and no gambling, and no meat-eating...
...explain that they are not trying to convert people to their way of life. "We want to make them more God-conscious," one man said. They believe that their movement has relevance to the modern world. "Young people are attracted [to the movement] because they are dissatisfied with the material life," said a young married woman...
...live in now is called Kali, the Age of Hate and Quarrels, and it began 5000 years ago when Krishna, the incarnation of God, disappeared from the each. "The 'Hare Krishna' chant is a means of unifying people and ending quarrels," the followers of the movement...
Packed council chambers are always likely to spark symbolic confrontations, and the chambers were very packed indeed during the rent control debate. In large part, this was due to the idea behind the entire housing convention movement, an idea currently popular with Federal agencies in Cambridge and elsewhere--"citizen participation." The young CEOC staff members who, behind the scenes, did much of the housing convention organizing take "citizen participation" in local government as one of their guiding lights and speared no pains to assure a large turnout of angry citizens for the council meeting and housing convention rallies...