Word: guru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans who deplore crime and disorder might consider the case of Andy Warhol, who for years has celebrated every form of licentiousness. Like some Nathanael West hero, the pop-art king was the blond guru of a nightmare world, photographing depravity and calling it truth. He surrounded himself with freakily named people-Viva, Ultra Violet, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar-playing games of lust, perversion, drug addiction and brutality before his crotchety cameras. Last week one of his grotesque bit players made the game quite real...
...left me at the entrance of a darkened room, I walked in. Jerry Jarvis was there seated in a chair, and I took the place next to him. As I watched, mute and fascinated, Jerry offered a short ceremony in thanks giving to Guru Dev, Maharishi's teacher. Then abruptly he knelt down, and motioned me to do the same. There was perfect silence. I felt numb and a little scared--what was about to happen? Then, suddenly, Jerry gave me my mantra--the sound on which I was to meditate thereafter--the essence of transcendental meditation. Although mantras...
...Music Department, he has all the "equipment": perfect pitch, near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat less frequent exposure as pianist and composer...
What makes Marcuse a guru of the student rebels is his chilling and strident critique of modern industrial civilization, which he sees as an impersonal, all-pervasive agent of domination over the individual. Modern technology, which should be used to free man from oppressive work, Marcuse argues, has overreached itself, turned wasteful and created a massive fusion of interlocking military, corporate and political interests. As a result, he says, the normal channels of protest and dissent are rendered impotent...
Religious experience, the guru's widow reminds Paul, "cannot be explained with words." Still, novels are but words, and Brown makes a brave attempt at a nearly impossible task. Even that shrewd old storyteller, Somerset Maugham, chose to avoid a confrontation with the issue in The Razor's Edge; his young American hero found self-transcendence in India, but Maugham never explained the religious experience itself...