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...Caveat: If you feel you need a professional researcher, write for a list of qualified practitioners to the Board for Certification of Genealogists, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Average hourly fee: up to $10. For Anglo-Americans, Debrett's of London, the guru of British pedigree and form, opened a tracing bureau for the common man in February and received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats...
...group was suffering from management, money and drug problems. Santana himself, pressured by sudden stardom was "watching the band decay on the wrong energy flow...what I was really seeking was illumination not satisfaction." Santana went to Sri Chinmoy, the Ceylonese guru who'd helped John McLaughlin. McLaughlin, whose rock-jazz had been increasingly influenced by Indian raga music, had adopted the philosophy of creating his music as an offering to a Supreme Being. Santana took similar steps towards peace and enlightenment--to the point where he wrote "God Himself is the musician." The band became increasingly jazz-oriented after...
...standard joke," says Fish, "is that whenever I introduce a new shot the guys kid me about being 'the guru...
Sophomore tennis player Kevin Shaw, who "guru" Fish has working on a new two-handed forehand: "Dave is a great coach, even in comparison to Jack. I don't want this to sound mushy, but he is a great coach...
...more general sense of ferment at Black Mountain, because the composer John Cage and his friend Merce Cunningham, the dancer-choreographer, were among the innovators living there. If it can be said that advanced art in America through the '50s and early '60s had one single native guru, that man was Cage: at once the most avant-garde and the most transparent of composers, the Marcel Duchamp of music, the man who erected combinations of silence and random sound into an aesthetic strategy in order to give art the inclusive density of life. It was Cage's example that prompted...