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This month, however, the growth center that held its first seminar on "The Human Potentiality" marks its 25th anniversary. A full generation has passed since Aldous Huxley, Arnold Toynbee and Buckminster Fuller first haunted these groves. Now that many of its ideas are available at your neighborhood seminar, while others are gathering dust, how does a place dedicated to state-of-the- heart fashions stay fresh? And has it come any closer to proving that feeling good can lead to being good...
Such are the questions that linger in the air as 50 people sprawl on pillows inside one of Esalen's mirrored conference rooms, gathering one radiant week for a five-day seminar called "Our Myth-Body to Live By." The topic is vintage Esalen: an attempt to marry impulses physical and metaphysical. So too are the seminar leaders: Joseph Campbell, mythologer supreme and godfather to many a '60s quester, and Chungliang Al Huang, a Chinese-born master of Tai Chi. For six hours each day, the octogenarian Campbell sits cross-legged on the floor and improvises passionate lectures about Navajo...
...powers, chain of command and the like were highlighted by North's testimony. Deep thinkers are offended that the masses have lost sight of them in Olliemania. But these questions have hardly been neglected. For the past eight months the country's op-ed pages have conducted a national seminar on the conflicting demands of secrecy, democracy and constitutionality...
This fall, Baldwin will teach a seminar onempirical approaches to corporate finance, and inthe spring she will lead a seminar on the theoryof corporate finance. She is currently writing apaper with the working title: "Selling GovernmentAssets: the Lessons of Conrail," which deals withthe government's auctioning of the then-newlyprofitable railroad...
...transfer students never lived in the Yard, never grew to loathe expos, never took a freshman seminar. We never even got to throw butter on the ceiling of the Union (I was especially sorry to miss that...