Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maharishi's metaphysical nonsequiturs appealed to the audience. "You don't have to give up the material world," he said, although he is both celibate and a vegetarian. "We can live 200 per cent of life by experiencing both the material and the spiritual...
Beneath their drab masques are three highly colored personae. Smith (Paul Ford) is a potato-faced professional vegetarian from the Midwest who plans to convert the natives to a diet of nut-burgers and Yeastrol. Jones (Alec Guinness) is a breezy, sleazy gun smuggler, all winks and leers, forever dreaming of deals. Brown (Richard Burton), in Haiti to reclaim his late mother's hotel, is a lapsed Catholic, a cynic, a middle-aged burned-out case. He is also a ready target for temptation, as substantially embodied in a Latin American ambassador's wife (Elizabeth Taylor). She waits...
...hitch with the Army in Germany, where an attack of "fun fatigue" caused him to swear off liquor forever, he studied acting at Los Angeles City College, eventually migrated to Manhattan. There, between appearances on TV shaving commercials, he cultivated the mysterious side of his nature. He became a vegetarian to help "clear up my mental vibrations," studied yoga and Zen, which he describes as "that silence between the left side and the right side of your ego, the illogical logic that has to work...
Only part of the answer, say two of the Adventists' doctors in the A.M.A. Journal, may be found in their tendency to follow a modified vegetarian diet and their strict adherence to a regime of exercise and good hygiene. The major explanation for the Adventists' better health, say Dr. Frank R. Lemon and Dr. Richard T. Walden, is the fact that they do not smoke...
Under his firm rule, it was from the start an autarchic colony, raising its own vegetarian food supplies, running its private bakery, print shop and greenhouses. For a time, the colony even had its own Siberia, a Lake Michigan island to which backsliders were banished to brood on their sins. Since man was evil, members could marry but were supposed to remain celibate-notwithstanding King Ben's example...