Word: taos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon, the young Buddhist disciple murmured "I am Tao" as he drew designs from the book of I Ching on the palm of his hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued...
WHRB has announced its new board: James D. Porter '70, of Winthrop House and Seattle, Washington, President; David K. C. Tao '70, of Adams House and St. Louis, Missouri, Vice-President; and E. Davis Dyer '70, of Winthrop House and Des Moines, Iowa, Treasurer...
...TAO TE CHING AND CHUANG TZU AS MANUALS FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES...
What does the Tao Te Ching have to tell us? An attempt will be made to relate mysticism and political radicalism, and consider the perennial problems of good government and social living. We will spend two days pondering such things in some secluded place. Come, or don't come, it's all the same...
...just how bad the situation really was. What was clear was that more and more elements of the army were siding with the anti-Maoists in the provinces in a spreading disaffection directly traceable to the by-now-famed incident in Wuhan. There, three weeks ago, General Chen Tsai-tao, whose command includes the vital Yangtze River hub city, seized two top Mao emissaries sent from Peking to bring Chen to heel. Peking negotiated the pair's release; but despite frantic efforts since then, Mao has been unable to subdue the open rebellion in Wuhan...