Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to release the unawakened consciousness. Arica, a nationwide spiritual organi zation, searches for "the Essential Self through, among other things, Egyptian gymnastics and African dances. Meditation is only incidental to Arica, and involves concentrating on the plan ets Jupiter and Saturn and the colors blue and black. Est, a San Francisco-based group, puts large numbers of people together in a room and keeps them there for up to 15 hours at a time, with only three toilet breaks. This supposedly forces modern man to look at his existential roots and discover, as Founder Werner Erhard phrases it, that...
They were honest about wanting to neutralize these people. They were hon est about saying they were dangerous and, you know, could destroy the system we had. They were right. There are many ways to neutralize an enemy. You can kill him-that's the ultimate neutralization. Discredit him so he can't do any work-that's another way. You can hassle him until he gets burned out and leaves voluntarily...
With Revson's death, only Estée Lauder, whose firm is Revlon's biggest competitor in more expensive lines, remains of the U.S. cosmetics industry pioneers. "The industry will miss him," she said last week. "We need to be kept on our toes." Painted ones, probably, with matching lips and fingertips...
Post referendum omne animal triste est...
...Levin was parodying the often incompletely quoted observation of the 2nd century physician Galen: Triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque (Every animal is sad after intercourse, except the human female and the rooster...