Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground rules: no liquor or psychedelic drugs during the session, no cameras, no leaving the group in pairs. Also: "Participants agree not to engage in overt sexual expression . . . denned as any activity which would be socially inappropriate in a similar group wearing clothing...
...Many were apprehensive-surprisingly, more about seeing others nude than about being seen-but just talking it out helped. Though they had the choice of bathing nude or wearing a suit, all but one undressed around the bath and slipped into the swirling waters. After that, most of the group spent most of the time unselfconsciously nude...
...participants concentrated at first on what they considered their undesirable features, such as overweight, poor proportions or aging. But after they had seen the video tapes, most were able to see themselves less critically. The consensus: "Each body seems to fit nicely with each face." While none of the group reported an instant cure of an old, severe neurosis, many found that soon after they shed their clothes they also shed inferiority feelings about their own bodies. As a result, they were less tense and embarrassed about some aspects...
...larger movement within the church to give priests a more meaningful voice in the ecclesiastical structure. One conspicuous sign of this has been the creation in the past two years of priests' senates. In 1965, the Second Vatican Council decreed that each diocese should establish "a group or senate of priests to give effective assistance to the bishop in his government of the diocese." This was a rather radi cal advance, and there was some doubt that the senates would have any effective voice. But already senates have been set up in 127 dioceses. And most have met with...
Stretching the Imagination. As part of his recent diversification drive, Bloomingdale has gone into a number of new fields directly related to credit. Through acquisition, he has set up National Account Systems, a group of collection agencies that handles overdue accounts for banks and retailers as well as for the club itself. Another new subsidiary is Financial Services Inc., a two-year-old data-processing firm established to provide credit checks for various businesses...