Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remind Simon of her father tend to become trophies, bagged in the act of looking foolish. A free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs...
Gallagher is active in the Democratic Socialists of America--more so than Bachrach, who is also a member--and is considered the most leftward of the candidates by many observers. He has received $350 in campaign contributions from Critical Legal Studies guru and Harvard Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, and smaller amounts from Nobel Laureates Professor of Cardiology Bernard Lown and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald...
...field of prime-time television, Bud Yorkin has acquired what one could only classify as Bigfoot status. In conjunction with 8 to 11 guru Norman Lear, Yorkin developed, as his press release so modestly proclaims, a string of record breaking hits: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Archie Bunker's Place." Commercial triumphs all, these Yorkin-Lear formula sit-coms were, in retrospect, surprisingly devoid of the socially relevant subject matter so current in many current series...
...venerable Freudian Bruno Bettelheim, 82, for the first time, patted him on the back and called him "one of the few people at this | conference that I respect," thus indicating how far therapeutic ecumenism has to go. Among the other visiting stars who had never met were Human-Potential Guru Carl Rogers and Joseph Wolpe, one of the founders of behavior therapy. Wolpe found the talk about therapeutic unity resistible. Zeig, in his opening address, referred to "the great ballet of differences" in the field, but Wolpe called it a "babble of conflicting voices." Wolpe complained about the proliferating forms...
...ideal teaching situation. I sort of believe that a teacher should not only know the student academically, but in a personal way. It's more like the traditional (in a European sense) student-mentor relationship or the tradition in the Islamic world where you sit with a guru and you learn thins on a one-to-one basis...