Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aerobatics. On Sunday morning, June 22, he flew the plane with a test pilot at the Delhi Flying Club. In the afternoon he took it on a series of joyrides with his wife Maneka, his mother's personal secretary R.K. Dhawan and the family's special guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari...
...vacuum of thought and feeling. Sounds and body actions are rushed in to fill the gap. Oriental masks and non-Western rituals are added, and de-individuate the actor. Superbly accomplished as this international troupe is, each member of it seems to be computerized by Brook's guru visions and will...
...flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting on a ledge smiling out at the world with a beatific...
...Britain's longtime touchstone of taste and guru of grace, he prided himself on the beau geste. So it was not surprising when the will of Sir Cecil Beaton, who died in January at 76, was read that a special friend had been singularly remembered. After monetary bequests and disposition of paintings, photographs and papers accumulated in a lifetime of photography, writing and theater, Beaton made another gift. To Actress Greta Garbo, now 74, who in the 1940s rebuffed Bachelor Beaton's tender of love and marriage, went a remembrance: an exquisite oil of one red rose...
...proofs of God's existence, long pursued in impenetrable books and journals, are engaging wider audiences. Last week Mortimer Adler, popular philosopher and guru of the Great Books Program, published How to Think About...