Word: guru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice should or will be. One letter wryly suggested that our 1967 choice should add a chapter to last year's and celebrate People Married 25 Years. The run of facetious and semi-facetious suggestions has included Girls Who Look Good in Mini skirts, The Beatles' Guru, the Sands Hotel Vice President Who Slugged Frank Sinatra, and Sgt. Pepper. While most of the proposals have been of a more serious nature, it is remarkable that this year, while we have received a heavy flow of suggestions, no individual or idea is clearly favored among our readers...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially...
...CIRCLES. Nothing happens in this 1920 play by Gertrude Stein, but it happens wonderfully well. Bound together by the free-ranging, eclectic music of Al Carmines, guru of the Judson Poet's Theater, In Circles is a word salad in mid-toss...
...CIRCLES. Nothing happens in this 1920 play by Gertrude Stein, but it happens wonderfully well. Bound together by the free-ranging, eclectic music of Al Carmines, guru of Judson Poets Theater, In Circles is a word salad in mid-toss...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "LSD: Lettvin v. Leary." A pseudopsychedelic trip complete with whirling lights and a confrontation between Head Guru Timothy Leary and M.I.T. Physiology Professor Jerome Lettvin...