Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high atrium, 7-ft.-long computer- controlled blimps may be flying overhead -- part of a project to develop stimulating science activities for elementary and high schools. In another area visitors encounter computers that can read lips. After spending three months at M.I.T. last year, Stewart Brand, the counterculture guru who originated the Whole Earth Catalog, was impressed enough to write a flattering book titled The Media Lab, which will be published next month by Viking Press...
...delightful and painful to see your coverage of the Tibetan Guru Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, whose body was cremated in Vermont ((AMERICAN SCENE, June 22)). The story was delightful because, laced as it was with cynicism, it was the kind of article Rinpoche would have enjoyed and appreciated. On the other hand, the coverage was painful because so many of us who are his followers apparently came off as self-absorbed and condescending. We know that we are not free of such attitudes, but they certainly...
...like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with apologies to Amtrak, call it the Angst Express. The confused came...
...between teacher and student is similar to that between psychiatrist and patient, goes one definition. There has to be full trust, otherwise nothing is accomplished. "It's a particular type of religious devotion," says a former student of Rinpoche's, "where you surrender all your critical faculties to a guru." Whatever it is, initiates have a tendency to tell uninitiates, it is inexplicable unless one is an initiate. This is when Frank Sinatra used to come in with a line like "Hey, whatever gets you through the night...
...first week, Paramount's gangster epic is starting to look like Beverly Hills Cop II, Too. The Eddie Murphy action comedy has earned a phenomenal $89 million in its first three weeks. But The Untouchables may challenge Murphy with durability, what the industry calls "legs." A.D. Murphy, Variety's guru of grosses, credits The Untouchables with a "most auspicious beginning. It could run all summer." Privately, industry honchos now believe by year...