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Stettin is an overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...
...have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion is seen as an essential tool in the hard work of sheer survival, not as a matter of icing on the cake...
...Peale's syrupy, Coué-ed Christianity is an increasing disgrace to American Protestantism ... It reduces the Creator of Heaven and Earth to an aspirin tablet. Shame on the National Council of Churches for losing so much integrity in sponsoring this prettified prophet...
...rice in his bare hotel room and at noon would chew half a sausage, or a fish; each evening, a picturesque and mannerly Asian intellectual, he had access to the clubs. With scholars, artists and future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better and better") with Coué; but somehow, most nights the debate would zigzag back to Ho's one gnawing pang: Indo-China. "I am a revolutionary," Ho would explain...
...Coué in 3-D. The Power of Positive Thinking (Prentice-Hall; $2.95) is Dr. Peale's guide back to inner peace. So far, it has sold about 800,000 copies, has been abridged for teenagers, recorded in an RCA album, and put on film. It takes Dr. Coué's famous autosuggestive jingle ("Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better") and puts it in 3-D. The added dimensions: religion and psychology. The book is filled with "psycho-spiritual" advice that makes personal salvation a kind of do-it-yourself project. Samples...