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...spring of his senior year at Wesleyan University, the Bain consulting firm rejected his interview request. He immediately wrote back, telling them they would regret their mistake. “It ain’t over till it’s over,” he wrote, quoting Yogi Berra. He ultimately got the interview and a position...
...Alexis de Tocqueville --Holden Caulfield --Robert Frost --Gandhi --Seneca --J.F.K./R.F.K. --Yogi Berra --Thoreau...
...Beatles' famous trip to India in 1968, where they meditated under the guidance of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was largely Harrison's show. He and Patti had become devotees of the religious leader and arranged for the band to spend time at the maharishi's ashram in the Himalayan foothills. Other celebrities--Mia Farrow, the singer Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys--went on retreat as well, and the episode is remembered as one of the pivotal, if oddest, events of the Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said...
...western tourists still make pilgrimages to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's retreat? In the early 1980s you could always spot them there in Rishikesh, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Some came in search of the maharishi to learn more about transcendental meditation. Most of them really made the trip to pay tribute to the Beatles. On any given day you found them trying to reconnect to the current that had passed through their lives in the days before the band broke up. They were the ones you saw crouching in the grass, reaching down to touch the concrete...
...Beatles' famous trip to India in 1968, where they meditated under the guidance of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was largely Harrison's show. He and Patti had become devotees of the religious leader and arranged for the band to spend time at the maharishi's ashram in the Himalayan foothills. Other celebrities - Mia Farrow, the singer Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys - went on retreat as well, and the episode is remembered as one of the pivotal, if oddest, events of the Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said...