Word: swamis
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...make it crystal clear," said House Republican Leader Joe Martin after a solemn conference with President Eisenhower, "there is no weakening in our position." Swami Martin was talking about the Administration's struggle for a strong civil rights bill, but his crystal ball was cloudy: the Republican position was, in fact, weakening second by second...
...reconverts turned up. They sat cross-legged on the grass before pig-tailed Brahman pundits for half an hour's chanting of the Vedas, washed themselves with water from the sacred Ganges, and dropped incense on a fire of camphorwood and herbs. "You are again pure," said a swami. "You are once again Hindus...
...past master in the art of living by his wits." At the Dome and Coupole, Montparnasse haunts of the U.S. expatriate, he talked about death and Dostoevsky and was already veering toward the sort of grandiloquent occultism that today qualifies Miller for a career as a Los Angeles swami, should he tire of Big Sur. Perles lovingly records every drink...
...middle-aged Hindu housewife opened the door and gave the holy man two freshly baked chapatis (wheat pancakes). "May God have mercy on you," the swami cried, and then added a blessing: "May you have seven more sons...
...holy man was adamant. "Never," said he. "Once I have uttered a blessing I can do nothing about it." Wailing and weeping, the woman rushed indoors. A moment later her husband emerged, prostrated himself on the ground before the swami, begged him to be merciful, not to afflict him with more sons and drive him into bankruptcy. A crowd of neighbors gathered, and their sympathy was with the husband, for they were as hungry and as poor as he. "Withdraw the blessing, withdraw," they cried, but the swami would not. They set upon him with sticks. By the time...