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Shapiro, a Zen Buddhist, recalls that "Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said that one should not leave any traces of one's passage." Very much the adherent, Shapiro will no litter on the road on which he runs, but he certainly will muse at length about the remants of the drivers who preceded...
...painter he most admired, the surrealist André Masson, was set against the pre-eminently French virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz and Western landscape to the doctrines of various occult religions...
...radicals, mocking the dreamers, mocking the quest for visions. The audience is laughing with him. They are howling, but in pleasure rather than anger, as he thrusts an arm up for each of the jokes. They hear satire, not nobly expended pain, in these lines: ". . . who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall"; "who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish"; "who drove cross country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision...
Prince Charles is a monarchical Zen master of this kind of deflective gesture that establishes both closeness and distance. The former comes from the actual doing or saying; the latter from the perpetual surprise that it should have been done at all. Until last week's historic smooch on the palace balcony, no one could recall anyone in the royal family kissing on cue from the crowd. Lip readers who watched the scene on television reported to London newspapers this completely unverifiable exchange. He: "They are trying to get us to kiss." She: "I tried...
Working from the top, Brooks' candidates for pioneers of the new style are Bernie Cornfeld, whose flamboyant style ridiculed the low profile of international business; Governor Jerry Brown, the Jesuit-Zen candidate who flouted the rules of politics; and George Plimpton, the upper-class New Yorker whose characterizations as a dilettante in professional sports disguised a professional writer. But what of Gloria Vanderbilt, who declassed herself to become the Duchess of Denim, and of the homosexual parodists in entertainment and fashion...