Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After rowing in the third boat as a sophomore, he moved into the sixth seat in the varsity this spring as Harvard went undefeated in four races and won the Eastern sprints...
...time went by, but I wasn't impatient. Quietly excited, though. Resting in the wicker basket the assistant had given me were my two oranges, clean handkerchief, and six flowers--all necessary for the ceremony. I began to fear that my flowers might wilt, but then the joyous assistant came softly to me, and whispered that I should follow...
...HAVE been very faithful to the technique. As weeks went by, and nothing happened, I became a little restless and doubtful. My newspaperman's cynicism began infecting my hopes. But that didn't distract me, because Jerry Jarvis has repeatedly emphasized that no amount of doubt or resistance can thwart meditation--it is a mechanical process, right? But as time wore on, and I met other people who had stopped meditating, or weren't noticing any change, I began learning certain truths about Transcendental Meditation as a practice and as a movement. Now, after three and a half months...
After two months, I was worried. SIMS refuses to admit that meditation won't work for anyone, but they do train meditation "checkers" who can diagnose any minor problems that might be temporarily impeding success. So I made an appointment for a check-up. I went to a Back Bay apartment and was checked by a girl in her bedroom--that is, we meditated together there in the dark...
...McColough served in the Royal Navy in World War II, got a Harvard Business School degree in 1949, quickly decided that "business is more interesting in the U.S. than in Canada." He almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents and he had a workman's black lunch pail on his desk and his bookshelf was a painted orange crate." Then he listened...