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...With-Pedant-Moderator type, typified by a graduate seminar I took in the Department of S*******. I came across this course when I was going through a Great Name stage, when I was a Boswell looking for his Johnson, a neophyte looking to sit at the feet of some guru. I found my big name, but the course became more of a quiz show than an investigation of the sociological foundation of literature, and the professor better fit the role of a Bert Parks than a George Kitteridge...
Lord of the Universe. As you can see, the title to this program provides one answer to that ever-puzzling question, "Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?" This documentary profiles the mysterious mystic and his religious organization, the Divine Light Mission. See if it tells you that the guru's organization also sells office supplies and stereo equipment, or that an example of his humor, according to his older brother, is when "the prankster with a vision" rolled up the electric windows in his Rolls Royce on his brother's head. Ch. 2, 9:00 p.m. 1 hour...
...marriage may have been planned in heaven, but 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji needed earthly approval from Colorado's juvenile court last week before wedding his secretary, Marolyn Lois Johnson, 24. As head of a multimillion-dollar religious conglomerate and spiritual leader to a reputed 6 million followers of the Divine Light Mission round the world, the portly "perfect master" had little trouble convincing Judge Morris E. Cole that he was mature enough. He then doffed his Indian robes for a dark tuxedo, the bride dressed in a red and white gown and bedecked herself with flowers...
...sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
...prisoner stands in the modern, well-lighted classroom and begins self consciously to read from his manuscript. It is the rollicking story of a predawn police raid on the upstate New York home of LSD Guru Timothy Leary. The informally dressed audience - 29 other inmates and an instructor who is himself an ex-con - laughs appreciatively at the description of troopers peering inside, hoping for a glimpse of porno films but seeing only flickering psychedelic lights. When the cops finally storm the place, they find no orgy, no mob of spaced-out kids. Instead, Leary, dressed in white pajamas, comes...