Word: guru
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...lady who called Rama a "lecherous eunuch," and wonder about the Eastern profundities that sprinkle the book like sacred coconut in the curry. Example: "What is holiness but the assurance man has of himself?" Nor is there much help from the book's epigraph which quotes from the guru: "Waves are nothing but water. So is the sea." While conceding that it probably sounds better in Sanskrit, the bemused Westerner can only reply: "Sentences are nothing but words. So are novels...
...ones are in revolt against nothing but the "phoniness'" in human life itself, she points out. In fact, the family has become an enclave of private and very special spiritual excellence -specifically the nonphony Glass family, of which Seymour the elder, who has undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool." And it is on the troubling question of Seymour's suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit suicide because...
...great distance from youth's naive anger to the flatulence of age; passage of time and belief in one's own guff are all that is needed to turn one into the other. Now, at 70, living in the mountains of California's Big Sur as guru to a small colony of disciples, Miller is quite capable of prating: "It would be a grand thing for any community, large or small, to set aside even five minutes of the day for serious contemplation. If nothing more were to result than the recognition of such a feeling...
Unhappily, in the present novel the author's spare style seems to be the product less of economy than of penury. The book consists of reminiscences by several former Edinburgh schoolgirls about an eccentric teacher who was the guru of their set. One of the girls betrayed the teacher, Miss Brodie, to a disapproving headmistress, and the story quietly explains the manner of the betrayal. The trouble with the novel is not that its subject is unpromising; Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly...
Each morning he appeared in the dining room of the Hotel Janpath at 8-"If my staff people have any problems, they can find me there." Three-quarters of an hour later, he was in his office to begin a day's work that combined the functions of guru, watchdog, troubleshooter, father confessor and cheerleader. Visser 't Hooft is especially pleased with the smooth sailing of the Russian Orthodox into the World Council; increasing the Orthodox representation was his longstanding concern...