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...that failure "would probably mean the death of democracy and a return to the days when naked force represented the only means of winning political power." Then U Nu handed over to newspaper editors two trunks containing his personal effects, and poured an oblation of fresh water in the Buddhist ritual that accompanies an act of charity. He was departing public life, U Nu observed, with only three shirts to his back -and several longyis (Burmese sarongs) to wrap around...
...follow-through. Flanders was a sickening campaign, and Author Wolff's clear, cool account effectively re-creates its horror. Perhaps the last word falls to Haig's chief of staff. Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, who, according to Historian Fuller's introduction, "meditated like a Buddhist bhikku: revolved the prayer wheel of his doctrines, and out of them concocted Napoleonic battles on paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until the end of the Flanders campaign did Kiggell visit the corpse-filled swamp where countless thousands of British and German infantrymen...
...full battle dress moved into Rangoon police and government buildings one night last week. They mounted 2-in. guns around the capital's airfield, stopped all cars in the city and on major roads and searched them for hidden firearms. Then Premier U Nu, the dexterous little Buddhist who has presided over Burma's turbulent fortunes for almost all of its ten years of independence, went on the air and announced that he was resigning and had invited General Ne Win, chief of the armed forces, to head a nonparty government which would dissolve Parliament and "make arrangements...
...prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly...
This vision helps to illustrate Author Kerouac's unhappy faculty for confusing freedom with irresponsibility, for abusing the Zen Buddhist idea of the inseparability of good and evil by using it as an excuse for self-indulgence. Kerouac's protest against the urban work life (which he once called "the midtown sillies world") and the suburban home life of the U.S. middle class ("all that dumb white machinery in the kitchen") is trenchant but scarce!" new. And Kerouac's cult of "spontaneous writing" makes his pages at least as sloppy as they are sprightly...