Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here. All through the night people sat around the fire in a hogan singing, praying and chanting with the drums. Old people sat up all night long praying and singing so that I could come back and help them. There were times when no music was played and each person prayed silently to himself. Other times the Road Man (medicine man) passed the prayer stick to some one who would sing and chant to the accompaniment of the water drum. This is a religion of the earth, and the ceremony involved humbling me to all living things. The fire...
...library was not named for its endower because it has no endowment of its own. Radcliffe supports Schlesinger its projects, and a 13 person staff at a cost of approximately $300,000 a year...
William Alfred, a member of the committee and William R. Keenan Jr. professor of English, said yesterday committee members "should not feel left out" of the decision process. "The theater is a funny business," he said. "When a really good person comes along, the administration has to move in fast and grab him. There isn't time for consultation...
...person does reach his innermost being, the result is ecstatic union with himself, with his divine core, with the universe, with existence--surely a goal worth striving for, if such a spiritual center to man indeed exists...
Other facets of the great Eastern religions give them clear advantages nowadays in attracting devotees in the west. Rather than personalizing the cosmic spiritual energy as God, as a being not unlike your father who demands certain things and says certain things and before whom man is totally degraded and who maybe, if you're lucky, if he feels like it on a whim, gives you grace, the East prefers to keep such psychological games out of the matter. Each person has this energy at his core, each person can reach his innermost being (and many do) and each person...