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...Before, the music served mainly as an audio calendar, or a mood piece; suddenly, we are supposedly at the very heart of the pop-making scene. A druggie band living in a Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love" in concert and later (Jimmy Webb's, pop) "Up, Up, and Away" in a studio...
...people paid up to $445 each to attend his National Committee for Monetary Reform Conference. The people who attend the three-to five-day conclaves are primarily successful businessmen, doctors and attorneys. They are seeking advice on beating inflation and place great emphasis on personal contact with their investment guru. Explains Economist Eliot Janeway, who runs his own seminars: "People go for the same reason that they go to church instead of staying home and reading Scriptures. They like to hear the sermon." Speakers like Ruff and Rukeyser are paid as much as $10,000 for each appearance, but that...
...undisputed guru of the militant left is M.P. Tony Benn. A constant thorn in the side of Labor's parliamentary party, which comprises the elected M.P.s, Benn has held several Cabinet posts in Labor governments since he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1950. A handsome aristocrat who attributes many of his political ideas to the Bible, Benn became a favorite, if unanointed leader of the extreme left for renouncing his peerage...
Peter Drucker, management guru, naming the best-run U.S. organization: "The Girl Scouts. Tough, hard-working women can do anything...
...Friday, December 12, members of the International Committee Against Racism (INCAR)brought their attack to a Harvard classroom, voicing their opinions at Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson's Core course, "Evolutionary Biology." The demonstrators chose Wilson's class because he is both the symbolic and the scientific guru of Sociobiology by virtue of his two books Sociobiology: The New Synthesis(1975) and On Human Nature(1978). Besides launching personal attacks on Wilson, his "racist theory," and calling for public debate, INCAR seeks practical action: the removal of Wilson's class from the Core Curriculum...