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...Sophie ponders these questions, a three-page typewritten letter arrives, also unsigned, that turns out to be the first lesson in a course on the history of philosophy. At first by letter and then in person, a mysterious guru who calls himself Alberto Knox guides Sophie through the ideas of great thinkers, from the pre-Socratics to Jean-Paul Sartre. Philosophy's quest for truth, Knox tells his pupil, "resembles a detective story...
What a to-do over a guru. in recent weeks Institutional Investor magazine rated Elaine Garzarelli the top stock picker in her field for the 11th year in a row. But no sooner had the magazine hit the stands than Garzarelli abruptly became the most famous person to join the ranks of Wall Street's unemployed. With investment firms contracting -- 2,000 layoffs have been reported so far this year, and an additional 8,000 could follow in the next 12 months -- Garzarelli's bosses at Lehman Bros. announced last Tuesday that they could no longer afford her nearly...
Peter and Katherine (Peter Weller and Judy Davis) are bored and careless. They lose jobs, take on lovers, futz around with guru-driven spirituality and dress to the nines. You could argue, as writer-director Michael Tolkin doubtless did when he was pitching The New Age, that they are perfect exemplars of chic anomie as it manifests itself in postmodern -- or postrational -- Los Angeles. You could also argue, as people whose malls don't yet contain an Issey Miyake boutique might, that they are hopeless twits...
Think of him as Dan Quayle with brains and a degree in psychiatry. Call him God's golfer. It's hard not to roll your eyes when M. Scott Peck, M.D., personal-enrichment guru to the nation's conflicted upper middle class, author of The Road Less Traveled, a self-help manual whose sales have placed it on the New York Times best-seller list for the past 566 weeks, announces that he is sponsoring a $10,000-a-foursome golf tournament to promote "spirituality, golf and the fine art of business management." Business biggies will tee off this weekend...
...cynical wisecracks of this kind seem merely to assure believers that Peck is a regular guy, as do revelations that he smokes, and drinks fairly heavily. At 58 he is trying to scale back his incessant speaking engagements to about 25 a year, at $15,000 apiece. But the guru business, like the Mafia, is hard to retire from. He and his wife Lily generally suffer his adulators tolerantly, but they have been heard to refer to persistent hem-of-garment touchers as "leeches...