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There was always the whiff of the charlatan about John Cage. The puckish composer, audacious theoretician, stylish writer, subtle graphic artist, macrobiotic guru and fearless mushroom hunter was the impish personification of the 20th century avant-garde. Arch, soft-spoken and witty, Cage was passionately adored by his acolytes right up to his death at age 79 in 1992, and continues to be regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Beethoven, his influence ranging as far afield as Germany and Japan (where he is a demigod). And yet: Was there ever a composer of whom it can be said...
...what bothered the Biospherians most was their bad press. After the first wave of glowing articles, reporters zeroed in, sometimes unfairly, on the project's New Age roots (its "guru" was John Allen, an eccentric engineer who used to go by the name Johnny Dolphin), its commercialism (it was financed by Texas billionaire Edward Bass in part to develop marketable ecotechnology) and its scientific flaws (an advisory panel issued a report criticizing the project's scientific methods and later resigned). Ironically, some of the same researchers who ridiculed Biosphere 2 are now making the pilgrimage to Arizona...
Moore, Harvard's chief electrical inspector and elevator guru, is charged with running and maintaining the old and new elevators, the faster ones and the slower ones, the ones that groan going up and those that are programmed to buzz at every floor...
Because of this, baseball has serious competition for the first time in its history. Over the last 12 years, the National Basketball Association has become the fastest growing professional sports league in the world. Under the leadership of its marketing guru, Gary Bettman, the NBA has grown from relative obscurity into a household acronym. The National Football League has also gained popularity, albeit coming from a stronger initial position...
Sallay said the University's endowment managers have immense faith in House of Blues founder Isaac Tigrett, who also was a co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain. Tigrett is known as brilliant if unconventional entrepreneur. A picture of Tigrett's Indian guru sits above the stage inside the House of Blues on Winthrop Street...