Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...element of Miller's script is a "lone cellist," here ingeniously expanded to two, probably as underapreciated as it is slightly overused. Like voices calling and responding to one another, they act, unlike much musical interscenic filler, to further contemplation with subtle gradations of emotion rather than the current fad of ironic comment or scene-labeling through dastardly clever epoch-hopping musical selection. Bach (played by Laura Lee'00) and Gounod (Luba Mandzy '01) trade strains here, at the same time softening and commenting upon the rough edges of Miller's emotional landscape...
...years from now, Buddhism as a fad will be discarded in the American popular imagination, as were Marxism and other revolutionary countercultural movements. But serious Buddhists will still be in the world, as they have been, working ceaselessly (and discreetly) for the benefit of all. DIMITRI B. BAKHROUSHIN New York City...
Your cover asks, "Should they be cheered--or feared?" Neither. A movement like the Promise Keepers, whose attendance has grown in six years from 4,200 to 1.1 million, is a fad. Like every fad based on emotion and superstition, it will, in time, disappear. The answer to your question: Ignore them! FORREST G. WOOD Bakersfield, Calif...
...time the Beats and a lively (but very superficial) national "Zen fad" began to fade from national prominence, two more groups of Buddhists had converged with two more groups of seekers. Helen Tworkov, editor of the influential Buddhist quarterly Tricycle, says a generation explored Buddhism "out of an enormous sense of shame" over the Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora...
Smaller retailers also retain stores in Cambridge and along the Newbury promenade. Boutiques like Aldo, Blades and Newbury Comics appeal to the young and fad-conscious crowd that frequents the area around the University as well as the posh Boston strip...