Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disciples most truly reflect the Master's words. Buddha's teachings have some resemblance to those of the later Stoics: he argues that liberation is not gained by rites, liturgies, prayers, magic or sacraments, but only by the deliberate inner search for self. Most effective is right thought and right behavior. Sin does not offend any god, but only the man who commits it. This stern doctrine proved too barren for most men. Within 200 years, Buddha was transformed by followers from Master into Lord, and surrounded by all manner of legend, demonology and ceremonial...
...This comic doesn't try to teach anything," says Creator Abeson, now making plans to introduce Willie Woo on television. "I hadn't thought of it as a reading aid-but we hear about teachers using Willie Woo in their classes." This is a destiny unlikely to overtake any of Willie's more established competitors...
...businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn't pretend he was nuts to stay out of the Army? I told them I steal for a living. They thought I was crazy but I wasn't. I was telling them the "truth...
Ever alert to the wiles of the West, the Soviet news agency Tass last week stumbled onto what seemed to it one of the biggest U.S. propaganda bloopers of all time. Tass could hardly contain itself at thought of showing up the Americans, delightedly prepared a news item for Soviet newspapers exposing the whole fraud. Object of Tass's excitement: the typical U.S. home that thousands of Russians will see in Moscow this summer as part of the first major U.S. exhibition in Russia (TIME, March 16). The six-room house, dubbed a "splitnik" because it will be split...
Tass scornfully advised Soviet city dwellers, who often live three and four or more to a room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what...