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...willing to drop $235 on the complete La Prairie line of five Swiss-made "miracle" creams and lotions that are sold at some department stores. The $70 Treatment Cream contains live cells from sheep placenta, ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where the saleswomen wear white uniforms and products are packaged in antiseptic green. On the counter sits...
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...
...clearly capable of withstanding a protracted closure. Although he takes pains to deny it, Company Chairman Kenneth Lord Thomson of Fleet, 55, is said to be less sentimentally attached to the papers than was his late father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson, who considered the acquisitions of the Times (est. 1785) and the Sunday Times (est. 1822) to be the pinnacle of his career...
...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...