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...suspect if it conjoins such disparate groups as the Moonies, the Hare Krishnas, the practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, the Jesus freaks, Scientology, est, the newfound devotees of Oriental religions in the U.S. like Sufi or Zen Buddhism, and the followers of individual cult leaders like Jim Jones or Guru Maharaj Ji. But since academic sociologists refuse to take these groups seriously enough to study them, the general ignorance on the whole matter may be lightened by a few generalized stabs in the dark...
...Resources Inc., a computerized forecasting firm, was still not ready to forecast a downturn. His current view: "We now predict recession. At these [interest] rates you are going to drive down housing and construction." Specifically, Eckstein's DRI estimates that there is a 55% chance of recession. Milton Friedman, guru of the conservative monetarist school of economists, gloomily asserts, "We have gone beyond the point of restoring the economy without a recession...
...recruit contributors, the TM organization uses a videotape of Convict Corum talking by phone to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru from India who brought TM to Europe and the U.S. TM organizers are also putting together an index of rehabilitation, though there is some doubt that parole boards would-or should-judge an inmate ready for release on the basis of things like improved alpha and theta brain waves. Penal authorities are more likely to be persuaded by the support TM has so far given parolees through free counseling at the 80 TM centers around the state...
Some injuries are simply the result of the athlete's being a klutz. California Tennis Guru Vic Braden points out that neophyte tennis players quite often cut themselves opening a can of balls, regularly rap partners in the head during warmups, or slip and fall on balls dropped on the court. Even the experienced player occasionally comes to grief. Says Columnist Art Buchwald, who has been sporting a cast on his badly sprained left leg: "I was going for one tennis ball and slipped on another." And there are the freak accidents. Like the Kansas City, Mo., runner...
...have several Camus. You have the Camus who was a guru for the left in the '50s, and you have the philosopher. As to the Camus who was the leftist, he at least had the lucidity to be aware of the Soviet concentration camps. The Camus who is the most near us now is the Camus who said he will denounce tyranny and fascism not only when it is on the extreme right but also when it is on the extreme left...