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...Truth was and continues to be transmitted from mind to mind. In Zen, says the catalogue, "Enlightenment was a dramatic, sudden event that came unannounced," and not gradually through study. As a result of this belief, there is the constant effort of the teachers (Zen masters) to "shock and shake their pupils into realization of the Truth." This effort is reflected in the masters' eccentric questions, paradoxical retorts, and bizarre tricks, all of which are potential parts of the ethos of unusual circumstance under which the student often achieved Enlightenment...
...went straight to business with "Piece Of My Heart," as crisply as ever it's been done. The Ikettes sang three other songs before Ike and Turner came on, including "The Tinaroo," designed to explain where their unique moves come from, and "Bend Over, Let Me See You Shake a Tailfeather...
...Houari Boumedienne, for instance, wanted to send troops to join the guerrillas against Hussein until Nasser dissuaded them. After the summit worked out ground rules for a cease-fire in Jordan, Nasser managed to get both Hussein and Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat to Cairo for a conciliatory hand shake in his presence...
...what turned out to be a 20-year slanging match with Ma, a simpering old party with a tongue like a blowtorch. It was a real power struggle: Ma had a loud voice in making church policy and a death grip on the temple's purse strings. To shake her loose, Aimee once went so far as to bust her nose. Ma struck back by dishing out some dirt about Sister Aimee's finances...
...damaged an aircraft or injured any of its passengers. In comparing the successful Hungarian heist with the nightmare hijackings carried out by Palestinian commandos, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeititng editorialized: "The Palestinian extremists want to terrorize by taking hostages, while the young Poles, Czechs, East Germans or Hungarians want to shake from their shoes the dust of hermetically closed territories. This difference in motivation and mentality will have to be kept in mind...