Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a few days after meeting the Dzogchen master, Merton was in solitary retreat near Darjeeling. "I have a definite feeling," he wrote then, that the Asian trip "was something I didn't need to do," that there was "too much movement. Too much 'looking for' something." Yet even to learn that, he felt, the journey had been worth it. Later in the day he seemed profoundly content. "The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell, far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above...
...stricter legal definition of obscenity by the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). Though the boundaries of the court's ruling are still unclear, they could well halt the skin trade's race to publish ever more explicit turn-ons. If forced to retreat, the magazines might simply succeed in boring their audience...
...central figure of the book, its fantasy-struck narrator, is a failed, elderly intellectual named Humberto. He is the caretaker of a huge, decayed and sparsely tenanted religious retreat house near Santiago. Those few others who live there-a mother superior, a few female orphans and a handful of ancient housemaids-know Humberto only as "Mudito." The name means "Little Mute," and indeed no one knows that Humberto can speak...
...twist normal things around." In fact the old man is simmering away in wild daydreams, and he is not the only one. Most of the characters are obsessed by the legend of blessed Iné, a child saint of witchlike proclivities who is said to have rescued the retreat house from an earthquake long ago and stayed around to haunt the place ever since...
...what was to have been a six-day state visit to the U.S. this week (now postponed until September because of President Nixon's illness), the American-educated Pakistani President, 45, discussed the troubled subcontinent with TIME Correspondent William Stewart at the presidential mountaintop retreat at Murree in the hills above Rawalpindi. "As Bhutto walked in, smiling, confident and modishly dressed in a blue striped suit with a figured tie, his personal gunman quietly withdrew," cabled Stewart. "During the next hour and a half, he displayed all the animation, emotion and sly intelligence that has baffled India...