Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alpha machine is still a long way from becoming Walker Percy's "lapsometer," which allowed Dr. Thomas More in Love in the Ruins to probe people's minds. But research is too new for anyone to claim that alpha training is a shortcut to nirvana. Electronic yoga remains a faddist's dream...
...pollution by package tour." More than the usual thousands of Continental Europeans are making plans to flee their own cities this summer to avoid the youthful crush. Elderly strollers in Munich's English Gardens glower at barefoot Brooklyn musicians standing on their heads with feet intertwined or sitting yoga-style, with begging bowls in outstretched hands. The Greek Orthodox Church in Athens has adopted a new prayer entitled "For Those Endangered by the Touristic Wave." The words: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on the cities, the islands and the villages of our Orthodox Fatherland, as well...
...bloomed in the Nielsens. Craig's urbane TV detective series, Peter Gunn, lasted three years, and the show is still rerunning; neither of them needs to work. Still, Alexis was never successfully cast as Mrs. Front Porch. She dabbled in summer stock, took lessons in French, Italian, dancing, yoga, singing, speed reading. "Once I studied to get a realtor's license," she recalls. "If things didn't go well, I thought I could sell real estate." With legs like that? No way. Last year she began taking singing and dancing lessons in Hollywood. She needed them. The first time...
...late '50's, Acharya (a title meaning "spiritual teacher") Prasad was an Indian student radical, and he reacted scornfully when a friend suggested that he come to a lecture on yoga. But he went, and much to his surprise, found a yogi talking about social interaction and the necessity to transform society. He learned that the man was in Ananda Marga, joined the organization himself, and soon began "whole-timer" training. But in 1962, at the request of the Guru of Ananda Marga, Shrii P. R. Sarkar, Prasad left whole-timer training, got married, and continued his education...
...based), and he evolved other ways of keeping mind and body together. Locked up in his own home, forbidden by his guards to have anything but a change of clothing and a few books, he devised his own crossword puzzles, invented games and immersed himself in self-taught yoga. By the end of his 806-day confinement, Grey had also managed to teach himself enough Chinese to read the slogans smeared across his walls by the screaming Red Guards who had first invaded his home to lock him up in August 1967. Grey's imprisonment had been carefully planned...