Word: gurdjieff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formulated Guild Socialism in 1912. After the WaR he campaigned, in his magazine and in the flesh, for the Social Credit system of Major C. H. Douglas. Meanwhile he was attending the lectures of Russian Philosopher Peter D. Ouspensky, who bated his breath about a Wise Man, Georges Gurdjieff, who made learned philosophers look like chicken-soup. In the midst of his activities Editor Orage dropped everything, betook himself to the Wise Man's ''Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...
...print her stories. Other contributors to the New Age: Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), Jack Collings Squire, W. L. George, Llewelyn Powys. During his editorship, 54 books were dedicated to him. Orage now lives in Manhattan, lectures on the art of writing, on the psychological methods of Religionist Georges Gurdjieff (TIME, March 24). Other books by him: An Alphabet of Economics; Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age; Consciousness: Animal, Human and Superhuman; Readers and Writers...
...Gurdjieff is now writing a book, most of which, in various stages of revision, has been read to his followers. Its name: Tales Told by Beelzebub to his Grandson...
...Gurdjieffites look for leadership to Alfred Richard Orage, onetime editor of the London New Age. In England they looked to Metaphysician Peter Ouspensky (Tertium Organum] until he quarreled with Gurdjieff. Manhattan Gurdjieffites include: Architect Hugh Ferriss, Editor Herbert Croly (New Republic), Socialite Mrs. Meredith Hare, Critic Gorham B. Munson, Musician Jeffrey Mark, Farmer Schuyler Jackson (TIME, Dec. 23), Authors Muriel Draper, Isa Glenn, Bayard Schindel, Jean Toomer...