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...meditation) is the form of Buddhism that is at the same time most appealing and appalling to the Western mind. It claims to be as practical as a Mack truck; it is certainly as anti-intellectual as a hooky-playing schoolboy, and often as humorous as a well-timed pratfall. But it also insists on the disconcerting necessity of saying yes and no at the same time...
Early Life: Born in Newark on April 25, 1906, the son (one of eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
...achieved his overnight success without the benefit of a musical education. What he has in abundance, however, is the ability to regard the world with the fractured gaze of a teenager. Reminiscing about his career, he recalls that his mother gave him a banjo when he was still a schoolboy in Los Angeles and remarked, "Here, go make something of yourself.'' But. says Jimmy sadly, "I just couldn't cut the mustard. So then my grandmother, she bought me a uke and said, 'Jimmy, try this thing,' and boy I really cut the mustard!" Three...
...earth. With that pledge and sword, he won a secure place in the pantheon of American heroes. What the French think of him is a more complicated matter. As depicted by his most recent biographers, Maurice de la Fuye and Emile Babeau. the French hero of U.S. schoolboys was himself a schoolboy...
...This schoolboy's vision of scientifically organized socialist society, based essentially on an esthetic distaste for poverty and an aristocratic contempt for "shopkeepers." was made to order for a Harrovian Brahman, and it was one of the enduring marks which Nehru bore when he returned to India in 1912. "Do what I will," he admitted years later, "I cannot get out of the habits of mind and the standards and ways of judging other countries, as well as life generally, which I acquired in school and college in England...