Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Zen. Like Alice, Ellen confesses that she was movie-afflicted early on. "It's just in the past six or seven years," she says, "that I've started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit...
...time, he cut down on his production of gallery art and began to turn himself into a rootin'-tootin' mixture of Zen monk and Texas daddy, full of Jack Daniel's and koans, moving from one collective project to the next and plunging into a sequence of causes. These have run from EAT (Experiments...
Lotus Sutra. Although Soka Gakkai is based on the teachings of a zealous 13th century Japanese monk named Nichiren Daishonin, who sought to demystify and simplify Buddhism, it has little in common with Zen or other more meditative sects. The emphasis is placed on repeated chanting of the Diamoku, (worship formula) in praise of the lotus sutra. Members must prove their piety by making fresh converts. One of their most debatable practices is shakubuku, or forcible persuasion, which some critics charge has often bordered on brainwashing...
...ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig. A haunting memoir by a father who has recovered from a breakdown and tries to protect his young son from the man he once...
Narrow Road to the Deep North is a good, serious play about zen and Japan by Edward Bond. It's not the most exciting two and half hours of theater around, but it's far from lightweight. At the Loeb mainstage, tonight, Fri, Sat, Sun, Tues...