Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being myself a Buddhist, I read with great interest the note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
Scare the Guests. As the bold Brown strategists see things, Brown must, as a minimum, keep the Golden State's massive delegation in hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...
...help from her husband's fellow teachers. Several days after the court had awarded damages to the Rollands, an anonymous letter postmarked Paris arrived at their home. "Congratulations on the good business," it read. "Several million francs-now there's a death that pays off ..." Leaving a note that said, "I am going to join Alain," Banker Rolland last week tied a rope to a rafter in his bathroom, hanged himself...
...Ever Heard? Baron Clements saw his first bullfight when he was ten, and "right then I decided that what I wanted to do most was fight bulls." Writing in the sixth grade on his life's ambition, he drew an F-minus and a stern note from his teacher: "Baron, I expect you to stay in this afternoon and write a reasonable theme. Who ever heard of people these days being bullfighters...
...Mithridates, he died old," sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad-leaving it largely up to his readers to know who Mithradates was and why his longevity was worthy of note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long...