Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ZEPPO, THE MISSING KENNEDY BROTHER, announced one headline. CAN HOMOS BE DENTISTS? asked another. ZEN AND THE ART OF METHADONE MAINTENANCE, read a third. It was only an irreverent National Lampoon parody of a relative newcomer to the U.S. magazine scene, New Times, but some readers might have taken it for the real thing. Along with eye-grabbing covers-a grisly painting of John Kennedy at the instant of his assassination; a shot of a grinning skin-mag publisher lying nude under a heap of life-size plastic porn dolls-New Times's most familiar trademark is an addiction...
...years ago, Dutch Author van de Wetering won wide praise for The Empty Mirror, a fascinating account of his experiences as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery (TIME, Feb. 11,1974). Now he mixes his Western upbringing and Eastern training to emerge as, of all things, a superlative mystery writer. This first novel starts in standard fashion: a man is found hanged, slowly turning on the rope, because "bodies suspended by the neck are never quite still." What follows is hardly conventional...
Such pleasures are romantic, visceral, even spiritual; they need not be labeled existential. By so doing, the author forces a comparison with Robert M. Pirsig's bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a volume far richer, more vital and, ultimately, more interesting. Florman's book is weakened by its argumentative tone. Still, it is clear, erudite and occasionally eloquent, valuable reading for engineers given to self-scrutiny and a stimulating one for the layman interested in the ancient schism between machines and men's souls...
...could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" asked Henry David Thoreau in Walden, that celebrated text on the discovery of inner resources. That will be one of the many texts - along with Moby-Dick and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - in a new English lit. course offered next month by Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pa. The course: Self-Reliance in a Technological Society...
...long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...