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Bennett and wished
What later became apparent was that Shushud did not agree with the connection Bennett wished to make between Gurdjieff and the Masters of Wisdom.

Bennett and Gurdjieff's
Gurdjieff's notable personal students include Jeanne de Salzmann, Willem Nyland, Lord Pentland ( Henry John Sinclair ), P. D. Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann, Thomas de Hartmann, Jane Heap, John G. Bennett, Alfred Richard Orage, Maurice Nicoll, Lanza del Vasto, George and Helen Adie, Rene Daumal and Katherine Mansfield.
At that time, Bennett had already investigated the Sufi origins of many of Gurdjieff's teachings, based on both Gurdjieff's own numerous statements, and on travels Bennett himself made in the East where he met various Sufi Sheikhs.
Bennett met Gurdjieff in Constantinople in October 1920, and later helped to co-ordinate the work of Gurdjieff in England after Gurdjieff's arrival in Paris.
However, Bennett had been profoundly impressed with Gurdjieff's ideas about the arrangement of the human organism and the possibility of a man's transformation to a higher state of being, and would later dedicate much of his life to the elaboration and dissemination of those ideas.
By now, Bennett was running his own study groups and giving talks on the subject of Gurdjieff's system.
Bennett began writing and developing his own ideas in addition to Gurdjieff's.
Bennett was convinced that the Gurdjieff's system could be reconciled with modern science.
In the 18 months before Gurdjieff's death ( in October 1949 ), Bennett visited him frequently, despite his heavy professional schedule ( he was now working for the Powell Duffryn coal company ) and his responsibilities towards the group work at Coombe Springs.
Bennett learnt of Gurdjieff's writings, and read " Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson " for the first time.
At the beginning of 1949, Bennett was named as Gurdjieff's ' Representative for England ' and later gave public lectures in London on Gurdjieff and his ideas.
During 1954, there were increasingly evident differences of opinion between Bennett and Madame de Salzmann regarding the promulgation of Gurdjieff's teachings, and Bennett came to realise that an effectual working relationship with her groups was not possible.
Bennett and other followers of Gurdjieff's ideas were astonished to meet a man claiming to represent what Gurdjieff had called ' The Inner Circle of Humanity ', something they had discussed for so long without hope of its concrete manifestation.
In the same year, Bennett began editing Gurdjieff's Third Series of writings, ' Life is Real Only Then When I Am ', undertaking its publication on behalf of the Gurdjieff family ( who were having difficulties in dealing with the Gurdjieff Foundation ).

Bennett and last
However, the household was a literate one, subscribing to three newspapers. They were strong Conservatives ; indeed one of the largest and last ships launched by the Bennett shipyard ( in 1869 ) was the Sir John A. Macdonald.
Bennett C. Riley, the last military governor, called a constitutional convention to meet in Monterey in September 1849.
* Playwright Alan Bennett has lived in Gloucester Crescent for the last forty years.
In August 1879, The Engineering and Mining Journal wrote, " the Gaylord Coal Co. is building a new breaker in place of the one burned down last summer, and which is to prepare the coal from the old slope workings, with its tunnel to the seven foot seam, as well as the coal from its new shaft which was sunk by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., when it had it, to the Bennett seam.
* Aunt May notably appeared in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series with Linda Gary reprising Aunt May for the first three seasons and later voiced by Julie Bennett in the last two seasons following Gary's death.
Guests including Jimmy Fallon, Michael Bublé, Don Rickles, Josh Groban, Joe Biden, Robert DeNiro, Joan Rivers, David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Michael Douglas, Donald Trump, Bret Michaels, Lou Holtz, Liam Neeson, and Tony Bennett returned for one last sit-down with Philbin and Ripa, sharing recollections of the times they've shared on Live!
Though it was now 25 years since they had last met ( due mainly to Ouspensky's long standing veto on Gurdjieff to members of his groups ), Bennett quickly decided to renew contact.
Bennett and some of the Coombe Springs residents had moved into a nearby house in Kingston upon Thames, where the family ( the Bennetts now had two sons and two young daughters ) would live quietly for four years before Bennett embarked on his last great project-an experimental school for passing on techniques for spiritual transformation.
The construction crews working from Bennett along a difficult lakeshore reached Carcross the next year, and the last spike was driven on July 29, 1900, with service starting on August 1, 1900.
The last execution by the U. S. Military was the hanging of Army PFC John A. Bennett, on April 13, 1961, for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl.
Also in 1972 Bennett played for Toowoomba in the last ever Bulimba Cup final against Brisbane.
Wayne Bennett has been one of the most successful coaches in Australian Rugby League history and has experienced success with the last three teams he has coached.
Officially, the last such case outside Quebec was that of W. A. C. Bennett who served as Premier of British Columbia, and styled himself as prime minister until leaving office in 1972.
The abolition was highly controversial at the time and the last Chairman Thomas Westropp Bennett played a key role.
Finding Bennett unwilling to intervene, Cahan wrote on his own responsibility to the British Chargé d ' affaires to the Holy See, George Ogilvie-Forbes, requesting him to raise the matter delicately at the Vatican, an initiative approved by Archbishop Gauthier of Montreal ... In September 1931 Ogilvie-Forbes told Cahan that “ the subject of your last letter has reached the proper and highest quarters .”" In 1934 Cahan had to deal with another minor crisis within the Catholic community, " Problems of precedence occurred at a state dinner following the opening of Parliament in January 1934.
Roxanne Bennett was the last ' live ' announcer on 3XY, finishing her shift at 12noon that day.
Herridge returned to Canada and was a delegate to the 1938 National Conservative Party Convention and raised hackles when he made an attack on a policy resolution that endorsed orthodox finance policy, rejecting the New Deal policies advocated by Bennett and Herridge in the last days of Bennett's government.
On September 24, 1896, the Tigers played their last game of their first season at Bennett Park, an exhibition doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds.
His long life and career in publishing made him one of the last links with writers including H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett born in the nineteenth century.
His obituary notice in The Times began by noting that his death " breaks one of the last links with his great contemporaries, Wells, Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett.
* Arnold Bennett: a last word, 1978.
The last leg of the narrator's return trip must be by train, as she wishes to get from Paris to Great Britain, where she will meet up with Bennett again.
The last was written in 1977 in memory of Bennett Tarshish, a young American admirer of Rubbra's work, who died in his thirties.

Bennett and literally
Bennett ( 1980, p. 114 ) describes the development of recording consciousness, the consequence of " a society which is literally wired for sound " in which, according to Middleton ( 1990, p. 88 ) " this consciousness defines the social reality of popular music.
* Aunt Justine ( portrayed by Ida Lupino ) and Aunt Agatha ( portrayed by Marjorie Bennett ), two of the Nanny's loveable aunts who draw a mob of reporters, tourists and " Flem Libbers " when they descend on the Everetts, quite literally, in a balloon in " The Balloon Ladies ".

Bennett and by
* The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Resource Center run by Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP.
This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...
* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.
Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).
Scarlet Street was a semi-independent — cosponsored by Universal and Lang's own Diana Productions, of which the film's costar, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder.
The original score was composed by British classical composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
According to Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf, LaGuardia often officiated in municipal court.
The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, and with choreography by Bennett.
In 1901 Gardner and the Elkingtons lived briefly in a bungalow in Kandy, where a neighbouring bungalow had just been vacated by the occultists Aleister Crowley and Charles Henry Allan Bennett.
While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.
* Worst Performance by a Popular Singer: Tony Bennett in The Oscar
Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").
The bottles date from 1995 and were made for the museum by Alan Bennett.
* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).
* The Old Crowd, screenplay by Alan Bennett ( LWT, 1979 )
After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.
* The TV series Xena: Warrior Princess ( played by Manu Bennett )
This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.
The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

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