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...Carl Gustav Jung (TIME, Nov. 9) makes as rash and unjustified a statement as he did in 1930 when in a Forum essay he said that white Americans had acquired a Negroid and Indian behaviour. Again it seems that Dr. Jung hears the bells but doesn't know where they're hanging. By attributing to Franklin D. Roosevelt "the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely," the analytical psychologist Jung overlooks the subtle but nevertheless gravitating difference between a leading statesman supported by more than...
This plan was carried out by three symposia dealing with as many different aspects of human society: "Factors Determining Human Behaviour", "Authority and the Individual", and "Independence, Convergence and Borrowing in Institutions, Thought...
...There is a seeming contradiction between the conscious individual aversion to war and the collective preparedness to wage war. This is explained by the fact that the behaviour, the feelings, the thoughts of an independent individual are quite different from those of a man who forms part of a collective whole. Civilized twentieth century man still possesses strong, fierce and destructive instincts, which have not been sublimated, or only partly so, and which break loose as soon as the community to which he belongs feels itself threatened by danger...
...Advocate this year will have six issues. They will follow a policy started with the May Day number last spring when, as "a lady in red", Either Advocate contemplated the polite Left, and walked the barricades thrown up in the streets of Art, the Drama. Literature, Polities and Behaviour. Each issue will be made up to strike some dominant note, echoed even in the regular departments of comment and review--the Stage, Book Notes, and Music. The emphasis may underline an American evaluation of the present day, or an estimate of Humanism at Harvard. In all choice of emphasis...
Kaufman has especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject