Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erased. He simply can't deal with his wife's affair, his own "failure" in Vietnam (he was sent home after injuring himself on the way to the shower), or the implications of the alternative thought being presented to him. So he goes for a suicidal swim in the Santa Monica surf...
...opening paragraph of "Protest Time Again" [March 6] telescopes events that took place almost a full year apart; the Stanford and Santa Cruz sit-ins concerning investments in South Africa occurred last spring, the Oregon and Portland State events in recent weeks. The nature of these events was also sharply different; the massive sit-ins last spring were remarkably peaceful and dominated by ideals of nonviolent civil disobedience, whereas the Oregon shows were run by an avowedly Communist organization, the Student Revolutionary Brigade, and involved small numbers of self-proclaimed revolutionaries...
DIED. Matthew Josephson, 79, biographer of an imposing collection of Old and New World figures; in Santa Cruz, Calif. After a period as a young expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson concentrated on famous Frenchmen (Rousseau and Zola). But a roving intellect led him home to do literary portraits of Americans (Thomas Edison, Al Smith and Sidney Hillman) as well as a study of 19th century capitalists whose rapacious ways he exploited in his most celebrated book, The Robber Barons...
...bald head, a Hare Krishna devotee seems out of place opening the large oak door of a sober Victorian brownstone house on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Krishna devotees are commonly seen chanting and dancing on New York's Fifth Ave., or asking for donations in Harvard Square dressed in Santa suits around Christmas time. But this devotee stands on the threshold of Boston's Temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), three blocks from the Ritz-Carlton...
Some of ISKCON's activities may seem to represent a compromise of ISKCON's eastern traditions. The use of Hare Krishna Santa Clauses for fundraising is a case in point. ISKCON is, after all, transplanting a religion that places a strong emphasis on the spiritual world into a materialistic culture. However, the basic religious tenets of ISKCON do not differ from its fellow Vaishnava sects in India. ISKCON adheres to the same rituals and doctrines of other Vaishnava sects and has not compromised the basic Vaishnava religious traditions in coming to the United States, Diana L. Eck, assistant professor...