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...home in India, too, he has a considerable following. There are centers of his disciples all over the subcontinent. He will return there this fall in a chartered Air India 747, together with 400 American devotees and a pet bull terrier. But this is undoubtedly not his last sojourn in the U.S. Says the guru: "Americans are good, loving and affectionate, law-abiding and disciplined. They have everything material; now they are searching for and deserve to find true happiness." Americans who encounter the guru return the compliment. Says Joy Anderson, a former dancer who now runs the Catskills ashram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Instant Energy | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

This is hardly the ore of glistening literary biography and, save for a précis of Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incorrodable Shamus | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...freshman will leave for Henley on June 18 after a nine-day training sojourn in Squam Lake, New Hampshire, coach Ted Washburn said yesterday...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Frosh Heavies to Travel To Henley Regatta in July | 6/2/1976 | See Source »

After returning from a two-year sojourn in Moscow, friends would always ask Steven C. Schecter '78 and his family about their experiences in the Soviet Union. It got to the point where the family members were interrupting each other so much that none of them could get a word in edgewise. They finally decided to resolve their problem by writing a book that would tell the story from all of their various viewpoints...

Author: By Michael L.silk, | Title: A Harvard Son Writes His Memoirs On Mother Russia | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...book purports to be the private journal of Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, the illegitimate son and protege of Aaron Burr (and the co-star of Burr). Charles, now 62, returns to the U.S. on the eve of its Centennial after a 38-year sojourn in Europe. Wiped out by the panic of 1873, he must barter his reputation as a respected journalist for some badly needed cash. He must also make a suitable match for his daughter Emma, 35, the widow of an impecunious French prince. Ultimately, Schuyler hopes to parlay a casual friendship with New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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