Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese in uniform have, of course, always outnumbered American servicemen in Viet Nam. Today there are ten ARVN regular divisions, totaling some 321,000 men. Manning the vulnerable mud forts and watchtowers across the country are an additional 142,000 Regional Force (R.F.) troops and 143,000 P.F.s, or Popular Force militiamen...
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...
...three main strands of the psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu...
...today's overcrowded art market, the museum director in search of new acquisitions finds himself in much the same position as a stockbroker in a runaway bull market. If he buys the current favorites, he will get popular pictures-at an inflated price. The cheaper but far riskier alternative is to buy undervalued art of a period or artist not yet discovered or out of fashion. This is the course chosen by Director Sherman Lee of Cleveland's Museum of Art, who invested the museum's $1,731,557 purchase fund for 1967 in 132 different works...
...overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision in The Fall of Japan. Author Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics, Craig traces the origins of the kamikaze suicide squadrons, General Curtis LeMay's plans for a low-altitude fire-bomb attack on Tokyo, and the success of Japanese intelligence forces in learning...