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...Charlene Chase-Brandmeier, 64, and her husband Fredrick Brandmeier, 57, are cruisegoers with a difference. They enjoy the high seas and the exotic locales. But they also like to feel that they are learning something new and growing as people--and they don't mean around their waistlines...
...analysis, Kaczynski went wrong as a result of the Gen Ed curriculum, the brainchild of Harvard President James B. Conant in the 1950s. As with today’s Core, the program was devoted to educating students in a variety of academic areas, but unlike the Core, Chase argues, the Gen Ed curriculum had particularly deleterious effects...
...Chase wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that lecturers were known for a rabidly “anti-technology message” and a “despairing depiction of the sinister forces that lie beneath the surface of civilization.” Kaczynski, only 16 years old when he entered Harvard, was particularly susceptible to these messages because he was exceptionally bright and extraordinarily conscientious Chase says...
...according to Chase, Kaczynski’s violent tendencies really emerged when he was subjected to severe psychological stress by Henry A. Murray, then a professor in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men” subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly...
According to Chase, a system of intellectual despair combined with tests that bordered on torture combined to fashion the Unabomber...