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Glancing away from the torrid spectre of Howard Cosell's face and the microphone extension that had been thrust into his eyes, Sully saw Bill Lee reading from a book of Zen Buddhist riddles...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...real University is not a material object. It is not a group of buildings that can be defended by the police. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Counter-Revolution at Harvard | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...Yorker, she also celebrated the Upper West Side. Hillenbrand had feared she would have trouble expressing in words the nuances that her body projects onstage, but he was pleasantly surprised: "After relating to her every muscle in practice for years, Gelsey has that same intimate self-awareness that Zen Buddhists have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 1, 1978 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...Spaceman. Boston's star southpaw by Southern California and out of Zen Buddhism. He was slightly out of breath, pulling his gray-streaked hair back, squinting his thin tanned face. He talked gently, in a California beach mumble, no show-biz, setting me totally at ease, and then he came at me from the stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...ultimately as difficult to be a totally content person in an unjust society as it is to enjoy a banquet surrounded by starving people." It is difficult to believe that Jimmy Carter is not content in his way or that Jerry Brown isn't content in his world of Zen Buddhism and E.F. ("Small is Beautiful") Schumacher quotations, but it may well be true that Gary Hart is the only one among the prospective 1980 Democratic hopefuls who is discontented in the way in which was Hubert Humphrey. Isn't Humphrey's way the true way for the Democratic Party...

Author: By Steven R. Valentine, | Title: A Look Toward 1980 | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

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