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Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts the two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession...
...learning wisdom, truth, understanding, etc., at a special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher)-a school, he told reporters, that is very much like Plato's Academy. The Plato of the place: Harry Jakobsen, a $100-a-week tool designer-turned-guru. At week's end a somewhat mystified Superior Judge Frederick Hall gave Columbia until Jan. 3 to file an answer to Jacobsen's counterclaim...
...hired a private guru and wrote uplifting moral tracts for his newspapers extolling the simple virtues - while maintaining more sumptuously furnished houses than he could remember, and requiring one of his four wives to cook everything he ate and to massage him with oil every morning. For the Indian Who's Who he provided his own modest biography: "In spite of having monumental achievements, Dalmia views them with a sense of detachment, always realizing that he is not the doer of what he has done, but that in him God has fulfilled himself...
Heir to this proud tradition, the intellectual in France today has the authority of a statesman or a guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals...