Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final act, however, was being staged in Detroit, where the Tigers still nursed a chance of beating California to force the Sox into a playoff. For the next three hours, all Boston turned to the radio--and waited...
...curious lesson in feeling took place at California's Esalen Institute, 35 miles south of Carmel in the Big Sur country, where a staff of uninhibited social scientists are engaged in the new technique of "sensitivity training." Their aim is to make business executives, doctors, lawyers, Peace Corpsmen and assorted self-searching women more aware of themselves and of their "authentic" relations with others through sensual and physical rather than verbal experience. Such sensitivity training is suddenly in vogue across the nation to help community leaders, clergymen and businessmen in their dealings with people. Some 350 officials...
...potential." He asks students in these "encounter groups" to act out their inner feelings rather than talk about them. A man who feels psychically "up tight" may be put inside a circle of classmates and asked to break through this human barrier. The University of California's George I. Brown, an associate professor of education, employs charades in his creativity workshops: he gets a woman to go through the motions of taking her girdle off, a man to pretend to release a balloon...
...acre new town 25 miles east of Sacramento. Ross Cortese, one of the nation's foremost developers of self-contained retirement villages, was forced to suspend sales and refund some down payments recently at four of his "Leisure World" communities in Maryland, New Jersey and California. To reduce his heavy land-carrying costs, he is also trying to sell the developments. Despite brisk business (1,000 houses and 600 rental units in five years), Joppatowne, Md., a 1,400-acre community near Baltimore, ran out of cash this spring; and Developer Leon Panitz filed for a bankruptcy reorganization...
Detroit was rained out last night, and has four games, all at home, with a really tough California. Chicago has three with Washington. And there can be no joy in Boston unless the Sox beat he Twins twice at Fenway...