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...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...
...fact that Spin magazine guru Bob Guccionne Jr. did not return my calls nor offer me that $50,000 per year position we talked about...
...story began a little over four years ago, when the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh left Poona, India to establish a commune in the high country of eastern Oregon. With a small flock of red-clad followers and about $40 million, Rajneesh filled an isolated valley with a small city, replete with stores, restaurants, buses, a dam, a farm, a hotel and an airport...