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...Chaos Ever since the Beatles gave up personal appearances, they have been searching for new ways to occupy their time away from the recording studios. The guru bit was a kick, and so was making home movies. Say, they thought, why not combine the two and make a sort of visionary flick for TV? Fab! Paul directed, Ringo mugged, John did imitations, George danced a bit and, when the show hit the BBC last week, the audience gagged. Titled Magical Mystery Tour after their latest album, the one-hour show was never magical but always mysterious. Try as they might...
...thing hippie religion is not is Judaeo-Christian in outlook. Jesus may be revered as the hip guru of his time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
...choice should or will be. One letter wryly suggested that our 1967 choice should add a chapter to last year's and celebrate People Married 25 Years. The run of facetious and semi-facetious suggestions has included Girls Who Look Good in Mini skirts, The Beatles' Guru, the Sands Hotel Vice President Who Slugged Frank Sinatra, and Sgt. Pepper. While most of the proposals have been of a more serious nature, it is remarkable that this year, while we have received a heavy flow of suggestions, no individual or idea is clearly favored among our readers...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially...
...CIRCLES. Nothing happens in this 1920 play by Gertrude Stein, but it happens wonderfully well. Bound together by the free-ranging, eclectic music of Al Carmines, guru of the Judson Poet's Theater, In Circles is a word salad in mid-toss...