Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ivory Tower. From his command post near by, Lieut. Colonel Vuang Van Dong, 30, who declared himself "chef de coup d'état," explained what the fighting was all about: "We want to end politics in the army." The rebels' complaint was that Diem's interference was hamstringing the army's efforts to wipe out Communist terrorism. Chimed in a paratroop captain: "All Diem has done in six years in office is indulge in nepotism. He has generals who don't even command a company. He lives in an ivory tower surrounded by his family...
Samadhi, the trancelike bliss that is the yogi's goal, is for Koestler the closest thing possible to death, and the practice of Yoga is "a systematic conditioning of the body to conniving in its own destruction, at the command of the will, by a series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...
...Reason. In Japan, Koestler observed, the techniques of Zen "show remarkable psychological insight and produce some equally remarkable results." But the results are far from remarkable when Zen is exported overseas and seeded among Western intellectuals with an entirely different cultural background. "They tried hard to obey its command: 'Let your mind go and become like a ball in a mountain stream'; the result was a punctured tennis ball surrounded by garbage, bouncing down the current from a burst water main...
...pages. At 2:04 a.m., the usually cautious New York Times declared Kennedy "elected" in an eight-column banner over the lead story by Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston, called to New York for the occasion. The edition was hardly on the street, however, when the Times high command, including President Orvil E. Dryfoos, took a worried look at the eroding Kennedy margin, gathered in emergency conference and hurriedly decided to stop the presses for almost three hours while Reston clattered out a new version of the latest developments. "Our obligation was to produce a historical document," said Reston...
...game analyses that Yale was a team ready and able to take advantage of any break that came its way. The Crimson, which has been giving away breaks all year, contributed a few in the first half, and that was all that the Elis needed to take command of the game...