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Psychohistory is the attempt to fuse the insights of psychology and psychoanalysis with those of history, and the big league of the burgeoning academic movement is the annual Wellfleet seminar on Cape Cod. At this year's closed meeting, such luminaries as Kenneth Keniston and Robert Jay Lifton were there. So was Erik Erikson (Young Man Luther, Gandhi's Truth), the founding spirit of the movement and the group. But the center of attention this year was Doris Kearns, probably the first aspiring psychohistorian to be prodded into print by her subject...
...burning inferno while on Red Fleet patrol in the Black Sea. Despite a frantic Soviet rescue effort, at least 225 crewmen and missile technicians aboard died in the mishap. It was the most shocking peacetime sea disaster since the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank in waters off Cape Cod, Mass., in 1963 with 129 sailors aboard...
...them available round the world, and many are being grabbed up like supermarket chicken specials. From the Atlantic Coast to the Canaries and the South Seas, many hundreds of islands can still be had. One reason is that aging owners, weary of battling for a living by scrambling for cod and crab, yearn for electric power, television, supermarkets, big cars and safe jobs. The island seeker, by contrast, hunts for a happy isle as pristine as those of Ulysses' dream, free of air pollution, real estate taxes, traffic jams, talk shows-and, he often finds out, devoid of plumbing...
...Family Stone have an annoying habit of not showing up for concert dates, but since Sly's recent flamboyant marriage they're supposed to have cleaned up their act in that regard. So if you want to believe the advance billing, Sly is playing at the Cape Cod Coliseum in Yarmouth Friday night. He's always great in concert, wearing outlandishly gaudy costumes with a flair and toying with the audience as he pleases. The rest of the band, while generally deferring to Sly, is tight and polished, and could hardly be accused of drabness either...
Remember, this is your last big weekend before reading period, so it's important to live life to the hilt, right? Well, the real action this weekend is down in Yarmouth at the Cape Cod Coliseum, as follows...