Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...
Clearly so absurd a character, so warped and inadequate a mind, despite its cold-blooded political discernment, could not in so short a time have worked such universal havoc if it had not embodied forces of evil in the world far greater than itself...
PRIZEFIGHTING Theater of the Absurd...
...like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...
...negative remarks about psychiatrists were uncalled for. I know there are many dedicated, caring psychiatrists, and to have made such a sweeping generalization was absurd. I should have taken my own advice: Measure twice; saw once. ANN LANDERS Chicago...