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Died. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, 74, Zen Buddhist scholar and first Westerner admitted to the Rinzai Zen priesthood; of a heart attack; in Kyoto, Japan. She began to follow Zen after a 1930 sightseeing trip through China and Japan and migrated to Japan in 1950 to open a study center. Convinced of her sincerity, the Zen Buddhists later ordained her as a priestess in charge of her own temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 3, 1967 | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...prevailing sexual mores, a predilection for pot and peyote, wanderlust, a penchant for Oriental mysticism on the order of Zen and the Veda. Yet the contrasts are even more striking. San Francisco's North Beach was a study in black and white; the Haight-Ashbury is a crazy quilt of living color. Black was a basic color in the abstract-expressionist painting of the beats; hippiedom's psychedelic poster art is blindingly vivid. The progressive jazz of the beats was coolly cerebral; the acid rock of the hippies is as visceral as a torn intestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...fatigue" caused him to swear off liquor forever, he studied acting at Los Angeles City College, eventually migrated to Manhattan. There, between appearances on TV shaving commercials, he cultivated the mysterious side of his nature. He became a vegetarian to help "clear up my mental vibrations," studied yoga and Zen, which he describes as "that silence between the left side and the right side of your ego, the illogical logic that has to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Beyond the Ego | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...said, "Hearing about people's trips is like hearing about their operations." He called the drug "instant Zen," saying that some of the insights people get on trips are familiar to students of mysticism. But taking LSD is a dangerous way to achieve insights, he said...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Pike Derogates Archaic Dogmas | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...19th and early 20th centuries in a setting of red wine, turpentine, bawdy songs in beery baritones, long flowing skirts for the women, and a general clamor for free love, free thought and freeloading. Bohemians were a very different tribe from today's subcultural exponents of acid, pot, Zen, odd sex, no-war and not-much-art. The bohemians bellowed defiance at the Establishment and their rules, paradoxically, were harder to live by than those of the Establishment itself. A republic of art rather than a state of trance was their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bohemian Girl | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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