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They try to achieve tathata (or "such-ness") through prayer, liturgy and ceremonies involving ritual lovemaking and liberal doses of happy pills made from yellow mushrooms. Those who think the only fun in fungi is in a mushroom omelet may be skeptical when they read that things are just short of perfect in Pala-"a small island completely surrounded by twenty-nine hundred million mental cases." And why did not Huxley heed the warning of one of his own characters that "Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erewhonsville | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...work out the right formula. But some union leaders suspect that the problem will get worse before it gets better. Moans Plumbers and Pipefitters Union President Peter Schoemann: "The 'grey area' and [the jurisdictional] 'scrambled egg' area used to be just a one-egg omelet; now it's getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Disunity at Unity House | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

Critics occasionally object to Clemens' odd recipes (he once prepared an omelet from an ostrich egg), and often accuse him of what they consider heinous culinary sins: he has been known to dip breaded cutlets in gravy (making a soggy crust), mix fresh cream with Madeira (which makes the cream run), and boil beef after searing it in a pan (making the meat tough). But Der Fernsehkoch has a ready answer: "As an actor, I know what goes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION ABROAD: Der Fernsehkoch | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Last week the Agriculture Department began to mix the same foul old omelet. After listening to a delegation of New Jersey egg farmers and their complaints about the egg surplus, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson issued orders to buy millions of dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Benson's Bad Eggs | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Krim. He was returning to Cairo from the Conference of North African Arabs and, after an initial coolness ("I took you for a Frenchman"), he dropped his natural wariness of strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word came out: injustice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PORTRAIT OF AN ALGERIAN | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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