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...month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools. One farmer, for example, was making about $8,000 a year off his 330 acres-and paying town, county and school taxes...
...slick packaging. Nothing kills one of those infamous Cambridge cocktail parties faster than a too-complete fatalism. But this magazine starting with a litany of all the terrible things wrong with the world quickly moves on to ice-breaking tidbits like the sayings of a Japanese zen master or a Bucky-Fuller-talking -blues-in-gobbledlygook or the parallels between our war on cancer and Vietnam, "our nation's last great effort in futility...
...West Journal is, in short, a periodical re-vamped in this month's issue into averitable treasure chest of Handy Hints for the modern world-caretaker. All in all, this creation is somewhat akin to the union of People magazine and a macrobiotic mystic's handbook--a sort of Zen and the art of togetherness manual. The sort of reading-matter you pick up to read as they're charging up the groceries. Check-out-counter spiritualism...
Editorial content, in Goldman's eyes is yin, the spiritual side of his magazine. Hence, you guessed it, advertising copy is yang or the material side of Journal. A swift Zen incantation, and presto! solvency, self-reliance, "independence from the artificial needs fostered by a consumer society" and a readership...
Seed on Good Earth. Leach's reputation as a bridge between Eastern and Western craft traditions-once a Zen Buddhist, he is now a devout member of the Baha'i faith-has helped to turn his St. Ives studio into a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of younger potters over the years. But the number of students working there remains limited to eleven. In an age of mechanical reproduction and mass production, the "Seventh Kenzan"-as some Japanese potters affectionately call him-has played a major part in preserving the old authority of the human hand. Above...