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...happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists on the subject to his dates. He brought an astonishing collection of girls to the Village, bagged with unobtrusive efficiency at a drugstore in Manhattan's chaste Barbizon Hotel for Women. Friends could almost see him storing up dialogue. The Barrymore of Camp Wigwam fended...
...first took him to a cottage 24 miles away, in Tarrytown. Friends apparently found his address, because he hid out in a sweatbox near the Third Avenue el for his three-week push to finish Catcher. He decided to move again, and in one of the notable failures of Zen archery, hit on Westport. The artsy-ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer," he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later...
...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett...
...self-analysis, self-pity, self-hate, and finally the obsession to be rid of self. "I am emptiness, I am not different from emptiness, neither is emptiness different from me; indeed, emptiness is me," says one of Kerouac's Dharma Bums. The big flirtation between the beatniks and Zen and other forms of Eastern passivism, as Fitch sees it, is a desire to be emptied of self. But it is the self-pitier who truly commands stage center in modern drama, fiction and even life. In a narrow and somewhat unfairly argued attack on Pasternak, Fitch claims that Doctor...