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Noonday at "Pali." One anthropologically absorbing place to watch these characteristics in interplay is the wall-less, roofed area for cafeteria tables at Pacific Palisades High School, bordering on Sunset Boulevard. "Pali," as the kids call it, is a new, $7,000,000, red brick campus lor 2,100 upper-middle-class students. "These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that...
Harvard now looks forward to a rather Spartan menu of courses dealing with India: Social Sciences 116 (a half course introduction to the Civilization of India) and Anthropology 140ab (a course to be given the year after next on Significant Aspects of the Social Organization of India. Sanskrit and Pali (neither of which is spoken) are the two language offerings in the area. There are two courses devoting a few weeks to Indian art: Fine Arts 13 and Humanities 120. This all adds up to one full undergraduate course (to be given the year after next) entirely devoted to Indian...
...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...
...Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley and Meinong's Gegendstandstheorie was accepted, Eliot says, "because it was unreadable." He never took his degree...