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...scene has also changed drastically. The student body is no longer a community, but "an unsorted collection of groups and individuals." With the "radical decline" in chapel attendance at seminaries, students only rarely worship together. "Manners," says the report, "are more relaxed, sex freer, and acquaintance with drugs often more than theoretical...
...reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...
...profession, and that the deities it invokes are only "the forces of nature." In Fairfield, Iowa, Seymour Migdal, dean of the faculty at the Maharishi University, is confident that TM will survive court scrutiny. Says he: "It doesn't require faith, and it doesn't require worship...
Vidal still expresses unabashed hero worship for his father, who died in 1969: "He was the most famous athlete of his day and a very glamorous figure in aviation." Several years ago Vidal entered a movie theater "to see some old March of Time newsreels. And there, suddenly, was my father. It made an extraordinary impact on me. He must have been about 35, and there I was, older than that, watching him. It was very strange. I was very, very fond...
Instead he modestly offers the varied colors and textures of an age in which the worship of the rational has frequently led to madness...