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...been considering pulling the papers because of declining consumer demand. Still, K Mart faced pressure from an Arkansas-based group called Doing in God's Name Incredible Things Yourself, or D.I.G.N.I.T.Y. The group's national profile has increased dramatically since Dick Gregory, the social activist and health guru, joined its antidrug crusading...
...Balch is concerned that the very definition of tolerance is changing: more and more people see it as "requiring others to do the kinds of things that they consider enlightened." On many campuses, the prevailing standard these days would appear to be that of Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a guru for many flower-power youths during the rebellious '60s. In his dense treatise One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse argued that tolerance for the expression of intolerant attitudes, like racial discrimination, should be repressed for society's good...
Those spiritual theatrics have earned Williamson, 39, recognition as "the guru of the moment in Hollywood," the most highly visible advocate of a mind- awareness text called A Course in Miracles. The 1,200-page spiritual- psychological tome was written in the 1960s by a now deceased Jewish psychologist Helen Schucman; it teaches spiritual self-betterment through exercises to clarify the subject's perception of reality. The book has spawned an informal network of more than 1,000 study groups based on its introspective meditational program...
...eyebrows were raised by an unusual private meeting MIKHAIL GORBACHEV scheduled during the London economic summit. The Soviet leader took time out from importuning Western leaders for economic help to greet his friend SRI CHINMOY, the New Age Indian guru. As French President Francois Mitterrand watched from the side, Gorbachev accepted a book of praise from the spiritual leader, who is based in Queens, N.Y. Gorbachev, who has been known to sprinkle speeches with terminology about his vision for a "new civilization" that obeys "new laws and logic," first met the guru last year on a state visit to Canada...
These activities do constitute a kind of movement, but it is a spiritual one. The white-haired guru of this transformation is the poet Robert Bly, whose book Iron John has been on the best-seller list for more than seven months. Bly and his fellow wise men believe that since the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left the home to work in offices and factories, boys have been raised by women and co-opted by a female view of masculinity. Later, the women's movement came along, creating an epidemic of what Bly calls "soft males," men who lacked fierceness...