Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What is, is," says Werner Erhard, 40, a former trainer of encyclopedia salesmen and founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...
TIME Behavior Writer John Leo enrolled in an est course in New York, endured the first weekend, and reconstructed the second from interviews. His report...
...named Marvin rants a bit and goes over the rules four or five times. We already know them: no chatting, smoking or notetaking; no getting out of the chair for any reason except for "the maximum" of one food break per day and widely spaced bathroom breaks. Around Manhattan, est is known as the "no-pee therapy." Bladder control is crucial. At some sessions, trainees have been known to announce "I have just wet my pants and it doesn't matter," sitting down happily, if soggily, to tumultuous applause...
Cheap Shots. This induces a bit of temporary Charles Bronsonism. Mar gaux grabs a rifle she just happens to have with her and guns down the as sailant. This turns out to be the cheap est shot in a cheap-shot enterprise...
...Norman Mailer: "I think his whole life was destroyed by his name. He should have been called Male-est...