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...Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!" goes the rallying cry, and it has brought to the Yippie standard such underground gurus and goblins as Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Realist Editor Paul Krassner and Jerry Rubin, a key organizer of the Pentagon March. Hard-core Yippies may number as few as 400 nationwide, but Fug Sanders reckons that the total following may now have reached...
Clergy & Liturgy. A second strand of hippie faith is Hindu mysticism; its followers peruse the writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...
...list is admirable in its division of attention between the gurus of the contemporary styles and their still-emerging disciples. It includes such cornerstone composers as the French mystic Olivier Messiaen and American Serialist Statesman Milton Babbitt, plus a smattering of tiny, wispy recent Stravinsky pieces, as well as chamber works by Aaron Copland, some recently discovered early pieces by Anton Webern, performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...kiss people and make love." Other hippie plots included jamming gun barrels with flowers and an attempt to "kidnap L.B.J. while wrestling him to the ground and pulling his pants off. We will attack with noisemakers, water pistols, marbles, bubble-gum wrappers and bazookas. Sorcerers, swamis, priests, warlocks, rabbis, gurus, witches, alchemists, speed freaks and other holy men will join hands and everyone will scream 'Vote for me!' " Alas, L.B.J. rarely visits the Pentagon...
While Bayreuth boasted a Wagnerian summit, Statesville, N.C., happily mustered the top names in folk and country music. To that city, nestled among the Appalachian foothills, there came last weekend such established bluegrass gurus as Earl Scruggs and Red Allen...