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...purity" of Krishna devotees and the adverse effects of new religions may play a part in determining ISKCON's success. But despite the movement's gain of U.S. adherents, the greatest barrier to the movement may be Americans' reluctance to accept the beliefs and traditions of a foreign culture and give up materialistic values Krishna promises to destroy...
...success amazes me still, every day of the year," said Rey. "It's a crazy success," she added, citing the games, puzzles, posters, jewelry and other paraphernalia bearing "Curious George's" picture...
...input and actual effect. The student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), for example, last month recommended a proclamation of support for the cause behind and work done by the Constitutional Convention, a proclamation that could have been just the impetus needed to ensure the success of the Convention's efforts...
...time Clayburgh considered giving up acting altogether. She started spending much of her time on the couch (and still keeps an appointment with an analyst every Wednesday). Then, following the inexorable law of any success story, her luck changed. The parts began coming in, and two years ago she met and began living with Playwright David Rabe, who has written The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers. She and Rabe, 37, now share a big apartment on Manhattan's West Side, together with a mongrel puppy and, occasionally, Jason, Rabe's five-year...
Novelist Granam Greene, 73, is entering the 50th year of a charmed career. Since publication of The Man Within in 1929, he has achieved critical and popular success. Among the English writers of Greene's generation, only Evelyn Waugh was more skillful at moving a narrative with brief, dramatic scenes. Yet Greene's contributions have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring...