Word: esteli
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...Like est, Prosperity Training originated in San Francisco, instructs students to "take responsibility for their own lives" and features marathon four-day courses with few food or bathroom breaks. But Prosperity Training offers a new twist; it is pitched to people who feel guilty that they have too much money and those who are puzzled that they have too little...
...about $12,000 a course, two or three times a month. In addition, a few well-heeled clients pay Sunshine $5,000 each for private training. There are always a few spoilsports who complain. One real estate agent who took the course called it "a watered-down version of est: undignified, mortifying and insulting to one's intelligence." But some trainees can't get enough Sunshine. Of the students in one recent class, one-third were repeat customers...
What disturbs the good-natured serenity of this trio now is not the spartan demands and hope of playing in the Super Bowl but the intrusion of self-realization. There is a special emphasis on an est-like movement called BEAT. Shake is converted to it, and his new-found saintliness threatens the stability of the maison à trois. His "seriousness" turns Barbara Jane's head. She must be rescued from both BEAT and marriage by Reynolds, who pretends a conversion of his own in order to expose the shallowness of the movement. The Ritchie-Bernstein version...
Harvard managed only 14 shots on a goal against a Brown (now 2-4-2) unit built on the 'best offense is a good defense' theory. Only five of the Crimson missiles found the general vicinity of the twines, and, c'est la vie, all were repelled successfully...
...usually writes out prescriptions for chemical Band-aids; after all, time is limited. Supposing even that doesn't work, the student will be advised to talk to a UHS psychiatrist. He or she will not be exposed to the humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...