Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble. He has asked virtually all his close friends and associates to write memos telling him what has gone wrong. But there is some question whether they will really do so. All too frequently, candor-on-request has resulted in a speedy exit from Johnson's inner circle...
...housewife who goes to Communion frequently, although she has not been to confession since Christmas. "But now I simply don't feel guilty about yelling at the kids." Another is the repugnant medievalism of confessional practice-lining up before a dark, grilled box to recite one's inner secrets to an unseen judge...
...order to gain access to the President's inner thoughts, however, the Faculty members have decided to pay the price of giving their community the silent treatment. Their unfortunate decision to emulate Mr. Johnson's notorious behavior suggests that their objections to the war are hardly as serious or sincere as they would have us believe...
Listen to the Body. As practiced at Esalen (named after an extinct Indian tribe), sensitivity training draws upon elements of the inner-directed meditation of Eastern religions and the interaction emphasis of Gestalt psychology. On the theory that modern urban man smothers his feelings under layers of intellectual abstractions and thus loses his sense of wholeness, Esalen President Michael Murphy, 37, a Stanford psychology graduate, also accents emotional release and an awareness of the body. "We have to learn to listen to our bodies if we are ever to enrich and expand our life of feeling," he says...
...with the Girdle. Social Psychologist William Schutz holds workshops on "joy" aimed at "the realization of one's potential." He asks students in these "encounter groups" to act out their inner feelings rather than talk about them. A man who feels psychically "up tight" may be put inside a circle of classmates and asked to break through this human barrier. The University of California's George I. Brown, an associate professor of education, employs charades in his creativity workshops: he gets a woman to go through the motions of taking her girdle off, a man to pretend...