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...life to each student by a teacher. Contemplation of the mantra allows the user to enter the transcendental state, during which Geeslin says meditators appear to be sleeping but in fact remain acutely alert to the outside environment. "What occurs during meditation is that everyday levels of thought become quieter and quieter until the quietest level can be transcended. The quieting is accompanied by physical changes--the breathing is shallower, brain waves are altered, and the heart load changes," he says...
...25th Harvard Reunion. It is already five years just last week since Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the seamy basement of a Los Angeles Hotel. Yet the anger he glimpsed and started to give voice to in the last years of his life has survived him, quieter now, smoldering again instead of burning. The people whose cause he championed still live amid the rubble, but they have not forgotten him. And the rest of us, touched by his earnest struggle to bring coherence to the madness, sensing a growing bond of kinship with him as his anger surfaced...
...night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock 'n' roll, he abandoned the big bands for smaller nightclub combos catering to quieter audiences...
...truth about this country is more conventionally got up, quieter, or more extraordinarily lunatic. Geoffrey Wolff
...failed to get an effective cease-fire all over the country," he said. "It has failed to establish lines of demarcation between troops." Indeed, although the level of fighting was declining, there still were some 180 clashes a day-well above the level of many of the quieter periods of the war. For the entire cease-fire period so far, Saigon claimed 5,218 enemy dead and admitted that 870 of its own troops had been killed. In this fighting, the ARVN managed to clear all but one of the major roads around Saigon and claimed that it controlled virtually...