Word: guru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learning wisdom, truth, understanding, etc., at a special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher)-a school, he told reporters, that is very much like Plato's Academy. The Plato of the place: Harry Jakobsen, a $100-a-week tool designer-turned-guru. At week's end a somewhat mystified Superior Judge Frederick Hall gave Columbia until Jan. 3 to file an answer to Jacobsen's counterclaim...
...hired a private guru and wrote uplifting moral tracts for his newspapers extolling the simple virtues - while maintaining more sumptuously furnished houses than he could remember, and requiring one of his four wives to cook everything he ate and to massage him with oil every morning. For the Indian Who's Who he provided his own modest biography: "In spite of having monumental achievements, Dalmia views them with a sense of detachment, always realizing that he is not the doer of what he has done, but that in him God has fulfilled himself...
Heir to this proud tradition, the intellectual in France today has the authority of a statesman or a guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals...
...black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place for the ceremony of kanchalia dharam...
Under the intoning guru's direction, the Shakta women and Naji took off their blouses and put them in a large earthenware jar, and the group drank liquor and feasted on goat flesh. But when Naji discovered the meaning of the ceremony, she refused to participate further. "You must take part in our sacrament," said the guru. Husband Odia also insisted. When her blouse was drawn from the jar, Naji ran off into the darkness...