Word: dharma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sadhu-Indian holy men who believe that it is enough to be and not to do. A shrewd political activist, he argues that "things should be done for their own sake. I accept that I will never understand reality, so I concentrate on action, dharma [duty] and commitment." Last week, at his government bungalow in New Delhi, he outlined his views of India's future in an interview with TIME Correspondents Lawrence Malkin and William Stewart. Excerpts...
...several loose "schools" of poetry provided some fixed points in a chaos of experimentation. A poet of the New York School, for example, was inclined to adopt his methods and aims from the French surrealists and Dadaists, while the Beats on the West Coast looked to the dharma and karma of the East for their inspiration. Today the schools have let out, and contemporary poetry has become a babel of idiosyncrasies...
...second section the scene shifts to San Francisco and to a larger group of writers, including the young San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in the early days of the West Coast Beats. "Japhy Ryder" is a poet and Orientalist who lives in a hut in a Berkeley backyard and who spends much of his time sitting on the grass mats on the floor of his hut studying Oriental texts, and sipping tea. There are three pictures...