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...Coping of Kops. Along the line the reader gets a rare insider's view of the outsiders. There is a prevalence of "pornmerchants" (peddlers of pornographic literature). "Kinks" are those with highly specialized sexual aberrations. The fad for Zen among U.S. beatniks is a London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead End Kids | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...laymen as well, and stresses the compassionate concern of the Buddha for humanity. The highest Mahayana ideal is the bodhisattva, or enlightened one, who sacrifices himself for others, and Mahayana mythology contains numerous examples of sacrifices as an act of love as well as a means of liberation. Zen Buddhism, one of the subdivisions of Mahayana, imported by the Japanese from China, emphasizes a combination of prolonged meditation and shock to achieve satori, or enlightenment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE FAITH THAT LIGHTS THE FIRES | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Dinners & Soup. British beefeaters have always been the biggest customers for Argentine canned, chilled and fro zen beef; in 1959 British purchases accounted for two-thirds of Argentina's exports. But since then, overproduction of beef by British farmers has forced a sharp cutback of nearly 20% in British buying. Fortunately for the Argentines, other European customers and newly opened markets behind the Iron Curtain and in Egypt, Israel and Portugal are taking up the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Beef Bonanza | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Orthodox medicine poured a flood of doubts and questions at Drs. Ivy and Durovic. What was Krebiozen (pronounced kre-by-o-zen)? Nobody knew, except that it was a whitish crystalline powder. How was it made? For years, Dr. Durovic has kept parts of the process secret. Did it really help cancer patients? On this question there was violent disagreement, intensified by wild charges (from both sides) of misleading or distorted evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Another Round in the Krebiozen Battle | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha's producers are no more missionary than the others. They aim for yen, not zen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down the Old De Mille Stream | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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