Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novels, however, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Pirsig, both published two years ago, appear to have stood the test of time...
...book reads at times like a sort of "Zen and the Art of House-Building," as when Cole says, "Getting your head in shape is the first and most important construction project in any home-building plan." But overall it is concrete. It deals in ample detail with all the information needed to plan and build a house in harmony with its natural environment. It tells how to face it south to get heat from the sun's rays and how best to conserve the heat once it enters the house, how to design the outside to blend with...
...your fingers do the walking and these days they stumble at almost every step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...
...game would be played better, and the current madness might be dismissed as an eccentric fad?and boon to retailers?in a class, say, with the Hula-Hoop or Saturday-night mah-jongg. But this is the age of the ME shirt, of instant psychological replay, of backyard Zen and Women's Liberation. With characteristically passionate optimism, American men and women pursue on the tennis court such things as health and ego reinforcement, true love and sexual aggression, social status and a special vision of the good life. "Let's face it," a Westchester housewife explains. "I took up tennis...
...blame him for hustling his own products, or think him entirely wrong? Meanwhile, in California, a lanky 38-year-old tennis pro named Timothy Gallwey is becoming a national personality (with his own TV show and a bestselling book called The Inner Game of Tennis) by blending Freud and Zen in his instruction and telling audiences that the way to play tennis, and the great game of life as well, is to win the inner struggle with yourself...