Word: gurdjieff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, recalled, "The last book I read in the bathroom was Meetings With Remarkable Men by Gurdjieff." Wald also expressed some concern about his image: "This will probably take away what little shreds of respectability I have left...
Meetings with Remarkable Men is the hip '70s answer to Hollywood's oldtime biblical kitsch. Once Cecil B. DeMille re-created the glory days of Moses in glorious Technicolor; now Director Peter Brook is giving the same treatment to G.I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949), the philosopher whose Zen-like quest for spiritual truth has greatly influenced the modern human-potential movement. Though The Ten Commandments and Remarkable Men are theologically antithetical, they are cinematic first cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular...