Word: bergin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 867 pages. 3 vols. Grossman. $75. A Dante scholar and professor of Romance languages at Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective...
...more practical level, behaviorists concede that reinforcement techniques have not so far been fully effective in teaching the full range of skills needed to cope with many daily strains. Some reinforcement experts go further and admit that behavior therapy probably cannot replace other techniques completely. Allen Bergin, a Columbia University psychologist says that "the behavioral therapist can handle a few things quite well. But what can he do when a totally depressed, alienated person comes into his office and bemoans the purposelessness of his life...
...timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental illness that needs to be treated, write Psychologists Hans H. Strupp and Allen E. Bergin in a study for the National Institute of Mental Health, "a little, but significant, change for a lot of people is seen as preferable to protracted efforts to produce large-scale changes in a few members of the upper social classes...
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...Turbulent Life. Professor Bergin begins his book with vivid chapters on Dante's century and Dante's life. It was the century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph...