Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous or merely decorative figure in his own society...
Bewildering Streets. But such efficiency goes only so far. Traffic is not just slow; it is torpid-and with the influx of Olympics visitors, it may well come to a halt at times. The trip from downtown hotels to the games used to take 30 minutes; now it takes at least an hour. Yet few of the 135,000 tourists seem to mind. For the extravagant Mexican sense of politeness is heightened by the Olympics. There are 900 pretty, miniskirted, multilingual girl aides standing ready to help bewildered tourists and foreign officials. Even Mexican motorists have shifted attitudes. A jaywalker...
...wealthy Zen enthusiasts. There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also a sprinkling of housewives: Tassajara is the world's first Zen monastery to admit women...
...huge ceremonies that go on for a week," says Baker. "Now the roshi will take a two-or three-day ceremony and cut it down to two hours. Recently I told him that if he doesn't cut it down to half an hour, I won't come." There is also no rule in the community that members must shave their heads, although, in practice, most of them do. In a similarly pragmatic vein, the community continues to take in paying weekend guests at Tassajara, and uses the income to operate and refurbish the monastery...
...this young man," he says, "the influence of a composite of the work of other great artists from Canaletto to Boudin, but it has a flash of the genius that was to come in later years, and sometimes these early flashes of genius are the man's greatest." Be sides, he adds practically, "there has not been as great an impressionist painting available since World War II. The really great Renoirs are all in museums or foundations...