Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilmen but has also left them open to new forms of criticism. All have been tarred with the same vague but pervasive public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still...
...macroscale, three elements work together to create a strong and satisfying environment. These are large, freestanding buildings which define the spaces around them; a level plain of grass; and a canopy of trees. Each of these aspects has myriad levels of refinement which further enrich both the entity and the totality. For example, the buildings in the Yard are consistent in scale, materials, and architectural treatment--eaves line up, windows and roofscapes have similar rhythms. There is, however, considerable variety within these limits, and the result is never dull. The grass is enlivened by a rich pattern of pedestrian paths...
...simply able to get off his perch and momentarily walk away from the problem, which is always anchored conveniently on the "steps of life." Except for the brief appearance of the Boy, Littlechap is the only male member of the cast, and Susan Ehrlich's costumes further enrich this aspect of his constant solitude...
Good fortune is no escape, Updike warns. "Indeed, the more fortunate our condition, the stronger the lure of negation, of perversity, of refusal . . . Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery. The world always topples...
Maliver himself admits that "there seem to be clear-cut positive effects for some participants." But he believes that "the encounter house" is badly in need of a cleanup. Although the growth centers where encounter flourishes often insist that their aim is not to treat emotional disturbances but to enrich life for normal men and women, the groups in fact attract many people in need of therapy. Nevertheless, there is rarely any screening to keep out those most likely to be harmed when buried problems surface...