Word: pali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling. The center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing some of them, in wild retreat, to leap over the precipice. Most guided tours also...
...first term, the academy is offering an exotic array of courses, and 100 college graduates from all over the country have come to take them. There are courses in Islamic law and Hindu thought, in the Urdu, Pali and Bengali languages-everything from "Vedanta and Its Interpretations" to "Systems of Atmavidya." The whole idea, says Gainsborough, is to teach more than just politics and economics. "Nobody can understand Asia," says he, "without realizing that the spiritual life dominates everything...