Word: siddhartha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works out regularly, but his campaign schedule has curtailed his twice- weekly tennis matches. He still quotes from memory lines from his favorite author, the German writer Hermann Hesse, whose visionary novels (Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi) describe the quest for enlightenment and serenity. That should be good inspiration for the next President of South Korea...
...benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with unfailing accuracy. Sidd, short for Siddhartha, joins the New York Mets in spring training and hooks up with Debbie Sue, a Florida beachgirl and playmate of porpoises. Plimpton employs real Mets as characters, digresses into baseball lore, horn playing, Zen and the art of pitching, and the emotional state of the narrator. It is all gracefully...
Mitchell A. Orenstein '89 and Siddhartha Mitter'89, the two other students that faced the lyingcharge, said they had both received letters fromMoses which said they had been found guilty onlyof participating in the blockade...
...Siddhartha Mitter '89, one of the SASC members writing the report, said the report "is not meant to compete with Murphy's report," but rather, to provide additional information to the University...
...Siddhartha Mitter '89, head of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), said the group plans to send members to join the Washington-bound Mobilization, and Mitchell A. Orenstein '89, a member of the Committee on Central America (COCA), said members of that group will participate as well...