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...ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only partly European. Besides, kith and kin are apt to have harsher conflicts than total strangers. At the outset, America defined itself against Europe (a fact neatly re- versed in Henry Kissinger's latter-day complaint that Europe seems to be able to unite only against Amer-ica). The U.S. saw itself-and to a great extent still sees itself-as a new beginning in history. Liberal, enlightened Europe used to share that view. Goethe wrote...
...overall complaint, the Soviets say the Carter Administration has been guilty of "vacillation and inconsistency," of shifting policies and switching signals. "The present leadership in Washington has never adopted one line to which we could adjust or respond," says a Soviet diplomat, echoing a view shared by many critics of the Administration in Western Europe and the U.S. The Soviets are especially bitter over one shift in Carter's policy. They say he deliberately tricked the U.S.S.R. into thinking that it might be a diplomatic partner in the Middle East. In the fall of 1977, a joint U.S.-Soviet statement...
...Soviet Union, although the Georgian Academy of Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is mostly a series of admonishing lectures. The doctor listens to the patient, then tells him how he ought to behave. If the complaint is deemed too trivial-anxiety, or mild depression-a patient may be told not to come back at all. Hypnosis is often used by doctors to encourage healthier behavior, like trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking. Says Dr. Vyacheslav Kotov, chief doctor-psychiatrist for the city of Moscow...
Clearly Richler's hero does not have Alexander Portnoy's complaint. There are troubles enough. When first encountered, Joshua, 47, is recovering from multiple fractures suffered in an accident whose cause remains cloaked until novel's end. There are other details with delayed explanations. Why is this father of three and husband to the beautiful Pauline Hornby wearing lacy panties while talking to the police? Why is Pauline hospitalized with a nervous breakdown? Is Dr. Dr. Mueller (he has two degrees) really an ex-Nazi living on Ibiza...
Barns echoes the common complaint of meager wages as a reason for his departure. As a petty officer first class, he was paid $11,000 annually. He also cites the shrinking number of trained sub men, noting that because of the scarcity he would have been assigned to sea duty in the next five years of his re-enlistment rather than just the next three. Moreover, he claims that the Navy is doing a poor job of instructing its personnel. "There is no on-the-job training," he says. "When a problem arises, they always...