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...Decade" issue [Dec. 26], you omitted an extremely important part of modern living -the frantic changes in America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...
...Even a guru has to put up with an occasional dressing-down from his dad. Allen Ginsberg, 43, and his father Louis, 74, were doing one of their tandem poetry readings in Miami when Allen's pro-drug comments ("I am turned on more often than I watch television") drove the elder Ginsberg to prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police...
...gave up the formal priesthood to work on his educational theories at the Center for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, insists that the proper outcome of any of the new ministries is "an intimate personal awareness of the meaning of religion." The psychedelic generation's most revered and thoughtful guru, former Episcopal Priest Alan Watts, now living in Sausalito, Calif., argues that church services ought to offer "more opportunity for meditation and spiritual experience." Monsignor Robert Fox, director of New York's Full Circle Associates, is an activist who nonetheless maintains that "you can't reach others without prayer...
...Hare Rama, Hare Rama." The Hindu mantra worked no spell at all on peppery Judge Julius Hoffman, in whose federal courtroom the bushy-bearded poet was appearing as a defense witness in the Chicago conspiracy trial. When the judge protested that he did not even know what language the guru was using, Ginsberg explained that it was Sanskrit. "Well," huffed Hoffman, "we don't allow Sanskrit in federal courts." Hare, Hare...
...almost hypnotic spell over his followers, who called him "God" and "Satan." His women lolled harem-like around the commune nude or barebreasted, catering to his every whim. One chagrined ranchhand relates discussing business with Manson while one of Manson's girls performed a sex act upon the "guru." But women in the "family" saw him in a different light. "He gave off a lot of magic," said one, Lynn Fromme. "To me, to us, he was everything," added another, Sandy Good Pugh...