Most foreign words visit the English language with a limited visa; a few stay on for life. Very likely, the word guru is a temporary resident, booked for a return trip to India. Some future etymologist studying the phrases of the '60s will do well, then, to examine the content of the film The Guru. It provides a more acute and melancholy definition than any current dictionary.
One summer a young rock singer (Michael York) visits India searching for the new sound of the sitar. He pledges his fealty to a musician-mystic (Utpal Dutt) and becomes involved with a clattering...
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