Word: guru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit if not in style, the Joffrey troupe owes an intellectual debt to the work of Balanchine. At least four other companies have been created by former Martha Graham dancers, who nonetheless reject as much as they borrow from the grand guru of gyration. Not that she minds. "I am particularly pleased," she says, "that there are no replicas of me in the field. Everyone should be doing something else, meeting their own challenge." In other words, echoing the hippie maxim, do your own thing. That they have-and their disparate styles might well be summed up as Tuned...
...Brown tells his tale in matter-of-fact, down-to-earth prose. But by the time Paul heads eastward, the least wary reader will know that the hero is in for a stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul's life...
...GENERATION (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Presenting Mia Farrow and her thoughts on the Viet Nam war, her work and, of course, on her meditation in India with Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...
Most faculty members and administrators here blame this situation on the draft. Until now, Harvard's solution for unhappy students has been to suggest a leave of absence. David Riesman, Harvard's guru-in-residence, expressed this attitude when he said that "in the absence of the draft, dropping out is a very good thing, both for the student and for the school." After a year or so of living in the big outside world, the student decides that either pumping books is preferable to pumping gas, in which case he returns, or else it isn't, in which case...
...Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week that they will leave in three weeks. These days, even holy men have their dropouts...