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...times, college sailing is more like zen than like a sport."--Harvard sophomore skipper Peter Wagner...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Sailors Enjoy Successful Fall | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...California elected Ronald Reagan governor because it was afraid of what was happening to society; in 1974 it elected the Zen-reading Jerry Brown, because it had finally come to imagine the potential of leaders "who could put aside political expediency when their Phantom Captains had discerned the perfect solution to a problem...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Where Have the Hippies Gone? | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

Cant't find that rare Zen poem or Lenin's "Materialism and Empiro-Criticism?" Stay right in Harvard Square because specialty book stores are one of its specialties...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Stacks | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

From 5 ft. away one sees how the chin of a woman is like a crag or how the white eyeballs of the old man on the left of the Jacob-Joseph lunette bulge like those of a bodhisattva in a "mad" Zen scroll; and how this is reinforced by colors nobody had seen since the end of the 16th century. They had begun to disappear almost from the moment Michelangelo began laying them on the wet plaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Unfamiliar Michelangelo | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...heart of the center's program is a series of eight afternoon seminars with titles like "The Samurai Spirit in Business Strategy" and "The Concentration Power of Zen in Business." For $60 a session, executives learn everything from how to drink green tea (slowly, unlike sake, which is downed in a gulp) to where to sit during a conference (not in the first seats offered) and when and where to take off one's shoes. The students are taught go, a traditional Japanese board game, and are introduced to the psychology behind sumo wrestling. The sessions, which combine lectures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zen in the Executive Suite | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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