Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perceptive summa tions of Islamic tradition or Zionist his tory are comparable to the great riffs and turbulences of his novels. But the Middle East, no matter how bizarre, is not fictive, and in the end its complex ity forces Bellow to quote the urgent pas sage in Handel's Messiah: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?" With the positing of that query, Bellow acknowledges that in the terri tory he has examined there are no easy answers. Indeed, there may be no answers at all - only questions...
Spiritual Exercises. Howls of religious outrage may also greet Bharati's description of the mystical personality. Conventional wisdom in most traditions, says Bharati, assumes that a man who has looked into the eye of God must be a saint or a sage. Rubbish, he replies. "The zero-experience cannot generate sainthood [or] wisdom ... any more than orgasm can generate good citizenship ... The mystic who was a stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes...
Once the world of Washington pundits included a few giants, ranging from the Olympian sage, Walter Lippmann, and James Reston, the best informed of Washington reporters, to the feared scandalmonger, Drew Pearson-and that was it. Now so many syndicated Washington columnists exist that it is hard to keep track of them, keep up with them, or tell one from another...
...Reagan headquarters, prompting John Sears, campaign manager and Peter Lorre-figure, to announce that Reagan had 1140 delegates. An obviously bogus count, but one that the Post and Globe were forced to play prominently on their front page in penance for having blown the "concession" story. The ever-sage New York Times played it safe, burying both stories on page...
...court had found her guilty of aiding Charles Starkweather in one of the most savage and sensational crimes of the 1950s: a two-day rampage of murder and violence that trailed blood across two states and left ten dead in its wake. True to her grandma's sage prophecy, Caril last week was given her freedom...