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OTHER COUNTRIES which inherited educational systems from the colonial period have been less fortunate than Japan. Dore had the opportunity to visit Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1971, shortly before the outbreak of a rebellion led by educated youth. According to Dore, education in Ceylon had prepared students for jobs that were unavailable. Students thought of jobs as status symbols without "intrinsic satisfaction," or opportunities for self expression and self development and useful service to society." The Ceylon government quelled the rebellion with the most violent means available including arms obtained at the spur of the moment from...
Died. Dudley Senanayake, 61, quiet, conservative, three-time Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); of heart disease; in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Succeeding his father as Prime Minister in 1952, Senanayake found his government beset with chronic inflation, food shortages and a leftist opposition determined to socialize the economy. After two brief terms plagued by rising prices (1952-53, 1960), he returned as Prime Minister in 1965 and held office until his government's decisive defeat by the Communist-backed Sri Lanka Freedom Party five years later...
...late Sri Aurobindo of Pondichéry, India, who died in 1950 at the age of 78, taught a different kind of integral yoga. Departing from the usual teaching of yoga, which speaks in terms of freeing the spirit from domination by the body, Aurobindo stressed perfecting the body by bringing the spirit more completely into it. Rather than looking toward an escape from the cycle of existence, he envisioned a this-worldly utopia of new consciousness. "It is the descent of the new consciousness that is the stamp and seal of my discipline," he wrote. Like Teilhard de Chardin...
...Your report on the investigation at Stanford Research Institute of the psychic power of Uri Geller [March 12] is shocking. There are good aspects, yes: first, that SRI and the team of physicists dared to examine Geller's claims; second, that the funds could be raised to pay the bill...
...Even so, SRI insists that its researchers were not duped. "Whether the subject be a saint or a sinner," said an SRI spokesman, "has nothing to do with our measurements concerning the so-called psychical awareness of individuals." How objective those measurements were may well become apparent this week at a Columbia University colloquium in Manhattan, where Targ is scheduled to report on his studies and show a film of Geller in action...