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...stitch. At 65, Leah Adler still has enough vim to run a kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center...
...essay, "The Sunshine Girls: Renata Adler and Joan Didion," he points points to the simplistic, "unearned nibilism" these authors have adopted from the tradition of modernism Elsewhere the castigates those writers who reduce affairs of the heart to a affairs of the glands. Epstein wants literatures sustain man and make him "better." Unfortunately, the feminists and leftists Epstein attacks claim that the amelioration and richness of life lie within the conflicts of politics and gender. Quickly and predictably, the argument turns from literature to philosophy and politics...
...founder of TA, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, presented the Parent-Adult-Child in Games People Play (1964), an urbane and witty analysis of how these three divisions of the ego can produce self-defeating scripts or "games." Thomas Harris added Psychiatrist Alfred Adler's concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." In Harris' view, many people go through life thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by adults. This stance, which he calls "I'm not OK -- You're OK," is often no one's fault. Even good parents who warn their children not to run into a busy street can build...
...Adler's one reservation about his latest work is that it presents only ten major mistakes. There are, he says, at least 18. But Adler wants to reach a mass audience, and 18 mistakes would have taken up too many pages. Says he: "I try to write a 200-page book that costs about $12. I hate $18 books." Adler knows that with such an approach he can expect to be roundly ignored in philosophical journals, an expectation that is dryly confirmed by Kenneth Seeskin, philosophy chairman at Northwestern. Says Seeskin: "Professional philosophers as a rule don't read Adler...
...matter. Adler's greatest pleasure is in reaching ordinary people, prodding what he believes to be the innate desire to learn. Proudly, he shows a recent letter from David Call, a journeyman plumber in Utah: "I am writing on behalf of a group of construction workers (mostly plumbers!)," notes Call, "who have finally found a teacher worth listening to. We have been studying your books for over a year now and have put together a sizable library of your writings. We may be plumbers during the day, but at lunch time and at night and on weekends, we are philosophers...