Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly the packed auditorium explodes in an ovation suggesting that this might be, as they say, "It." But no. Here, nonetheless, is the next best thing; that foxy wizard of Itmanship himself, est's own Werner Erhard, has materialized on stage. The roar of welcome goes on as he lays claim to the spotlight, hoisting himself onto a director's chair, a gray-flanneled leg tucked underneath him. The clamor trails off only when his words and pale gaze begin to spill across the crowd, conveying the improbable intimacy that seems to be the gift of all magnetic...
Individually, meanwhile, many of them give every sign of knowing who they are. Here is one who says he is Marvin Schwartz, 46, a math teacher who took est training. Says Schwartz: "I used to stutter badly. With est I got off stuttering. My life is a sword now." Here is Peter Wetzler, 25. He meditates, runs, is "into" yoga and is happy "just being here and seeing the possibilities." Here is Sil Read, 23, another est grad, who thinks attending The Event is "like going into a beautiful church." There in a $60 seat, a matronly woman sits confiding...
...analysis is suspect if it conjoins such disparate groups as the Moonies, the Hare Krishnas, the practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, the Jesus freaks, Scientology, est, the newfound devotees of Oriental religions in the U.S. like Sufi or Zen Buddhism, and the followers of individual cult leaders like Jim Jones or Guru Maharaj Ji. But since academic sociologists refuse to take these groups seriously enough to study them, the general ignorance on the whole matter may be lightened by a few generalized stabs in the dark...
From its first issue, featuring a cover story on Spiro Agnew, New Times has seldom been guilty of faintheartedness. The magazine quoted the racial slur that drove former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz into early retirement, printed an unflattering profile of est's Werner Erhard that Esquire had found too hot to handle, demolished liberal myths about the Black Panthers, grabbed the first interviews with Abbie Hoffman on the lam and Bill and Emily Harris in jail, found environmental horrors lurking in microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut...
Wolfe and his nine-member staff work on a meager $148,000-a-year budget in a cramped and rundown Washington office. On the door is a sign in Latin: POPULUS IAMDUDUM DEFUTATUS EST (The people have been getting screwed long enough). Putting in ten-hour days, Wolfe is currently involved in a study of surgeons' fees in Washington, D.C., a stepped-up antismoking campaign, and warnings on estrogen...