Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TAIWAN, movies last year attracted an audience of 235 million, indicating that every person on the island saw an average of 15 movies. Seven production companies with 20 sound stages turn out 120 films a year, mainly teenage tearjerkers, but occasional quality flicks too. A Touch of Zen, by renowned Director King Hu, won the Cannes Film Festival top prize in 1975 for technique. Ting Shan-Hsi, winner of the Asia Film Festival Best Director award, has just completed a $2.5 million epic called 800 Heroes, using a cast of 50,000 troops, 30 navy vessels and 50 refitted...
Much of the thought is borrowed from Zen Buddhism: the need to "stop thinking and let go" (the "slaying of the mind" in Buddhism), the invitation to live a life of pure experience and alert passivity. But in est "you get what you get," and Erhard stirs an activist message into his intellectual pudding for those who want it. The urging to "be the cause, not the effect of your life" seems to work well with est trainees who are blamers or professional victims. In est it is very important to change the world or very important to give...
...Yorker who took est a year ago got the Zen message and plunged into depression. "I was in a black hole for weeks. Nothing mattered, nothing would change." Others report increased capacity for work and euphoria ("like a drug high," said one) that gradually fades. A few say their lives are permanently changed and free of neuroses...
Every month, Psychology Today (circ. 1.1 million) tells Americans all they might want to know about sex, psychosurgery, biofeedback, insomnia, ultradian rhythms-indeed the whole galaxy of behavioral phenomena, from alienation to Zen. The magazine's success is due largely to its editor in chief and resident visionary since 1969, T (for nothing) George Harris. He turned a jargon-pocked and profitless publication into a Popular Mechanics of human behavior-eminently readable, visually stimulating and worth more than $2 million a year in net profit for its present owner, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., which bought the magazine...
Gary Snyder, an American poet who celebrates Zen and nature, looked like a man-in-the-mountain come down last night as he descended the stairs to the Hilles Cinema stage, clad in forest green and carrying his poems in a knotted scarf...