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...Guru Maharaj Ji has learned to specialize in just this sort of improbability and overstatement: the shameless graft of a veneer of Eastern spiritualism on to Western pop culture. The band, which will release its first album "Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?" next month, does songs with refrains like "Take me home with you, Guru Maharaj Ji." The Guru's Indian Mahatmas, equivalent to disciples, stud their sermons with words like "far out" and "A.O.K." At the concert Wednesday, the Guru's most prestigious American convert, former radical leader Rennie Davis, put forth a message which he called "almost unthinkable...
...contemporary critical scene has yet to absorb such a blow. While Dada was a shameless exposure of all that has been considered "holy in art," it was propelled by a laughter going so deep that a topsy-turvy admiration set in. This admiration clapped for the funeral of the "holy in art" and substituted a new formula holiness--founded in' a 'mix of playfulness, curiosity, and contradiction. And so is bred the Dadaist caricatuue of the seventies...
...Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon, meanwhile, South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu escalated his fulminations of discontent by declaring that the plan was a shameless "surrender to the Communists...
However, the writer added. "Teachers by negative example can be really used only by exposing and criticizing them. All reactionary fallacies and shameless slanders by these teachers are at once openly reactionary and fairly deceptive. If no earnest study and incisive criticism are carried out, people often cannot discern and understand very well where the poison is and how deceptive these fallacies and slanders are. Only through revolutionary mass cricism in which such wares have been thoroughly criticized and reactionary fallacies refuted and their deceptive and counter-revolutionary essence exposed can the masses' militant determination to struggle against the enemy...
Nabokov has become shameless in his attempts to control (and bamboozle) readers in these introductions. This time, without naming him, he gives particular hell to Critic Andrew Field -"a desperate saphead in the throes of a nightmare examination"-who had the effrontery to read Glory in Russian and beat the author to a published criticism...