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...could see tacos and burritos with lime-marinated chicken or came asada filling the space instead. We also would like to sink our teeth into some plain old American burgers, as well as some healthier options such as salads or sushi. But leave the inspiring tea choices such as "Zen," "Awake" and "Passion" in the well-designed coffee shop...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Loker Commons: A Bright Addition | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...stretched out imploringly) that he was parodying the very idea of crooner; he was a mellow modernist. You could also peg Dino as an anachronism, a Joe E. Lewis saloon-lush type, the party animal in a tux. Or maybe he was the first slacker, elevating sloth to a Zen art. The stupefaction he radiated on his TV show--the Golddiggers dancing around him as wildly as Jer used to, Dean standing there like a lamppost after a car wreck--made him the ideal m.c. for the years when American industry and entertainment stumbled into decadence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROONING TOWARD OBLIVION: DEAN MARTIN (1917-1995) | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

Naomi S. Stern '97, the organizer of the event, explained that the forum was a result of collaboration between the Catholic Students Association (CSA) and Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. Representatives of Secular Humanism, Catholicism, Judaism and Zen Buddhism accepted the invitation to address students on the philosophy of their respective religions...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Students Mull Religion, Philosophy | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

Charles A. Goodman '97 spoke last on Zen Buddhism. According to Goodman, Zen acknowledges the perfectibility of humanity. He argued that people have perfection within them "just as ice is really already water." Zen, he suggested, provides a methodology for unearthing that perfection

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Students Mull Religion, Philosophy | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

...Powell's case shows, the romance of the withheld is powerful. Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him. Human nature yearns for--idealizes--what is placed out of reach: Lycidas, the hero who dies in youth; Camelot, the bright, magic might-have-been. A politics of Zen--the most powerful presence is someone who isn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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