Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more frequent targets of this criticism is the Esalen Institute, the creation of two Stanford psychology graduates, Michael Murphy and Richard Price. In a San Francisco ashram, or Hindu retreat, where Murphy spent eight meditative years and was later joined by Price, the two dreamed of a university without academic trappings, which would combine the best of Western humanistic psychology and Eastern thought...
...trod before, but with his stylistic gift-a broad sense of satire wedded to an acute political intelligence-Wills makes even his recapitulations entertaining. Wills goes spelunking into Nixon's Whittier prehistory and there finds Frank Nixon, his father, "gloomy and argumentative, black Irishman moving in cloud, with frequent lightnings out of it." His late mother, Wills reports, displayed a "colored photo-portrait of Richard, which was, when one threw the switch, lit electrically from behind like a hamburger king's." There is some truth but also a certain theatrical silliness in Wills' conclusion: "Nixon...
President Pusey, Deans May and Dunlop, and Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and a frequent university spokesman, have received subpoenas...
...Professor Riesman suggests that "we may have to make do with incremental changes and small experiments, which could, however, become pilot models for larger changes." I fear that such marginal changes and minimal concessions could just as easily perpetuate an increasingly inadequate system-while undermining its legitimacy: a frequent result of incrementalism...
...most useful functions remains as a place for hostile big powers to meet and, if they so desire, to use U.N. machinery to carry out the results of their compromises or deals. The U.N. can no doubt be credited with numerous successes, but its failures have been discouragingly frequent. In the process, it has all too often raised hopes falsely and generated cynicism with its impotence...