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...need to reassert humanist considerations in medicine is a recurrent theme in the latest issue of Daedalus. The journal includes essays by 20 of the most influential members of the American medical establishment on the state of their art and of health care in general. Steven R. Graubard, the journal's editor, writes that the issue is a first step towards redefining America's health problems. But the problems already have been redefined. The major obstacles to health have changed without sanction from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. While the Daedalus articles do not present any very...
Coriolanus by Shakespeare/Beethoven. Directed by Peter Sellars. Jan. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 7:30 pm in the Loeb Experimental Theater. Tickets free at box office the day prior to the performance. Dracula lurks in wait for you. Thrills to go with the chill in the air, courtesy of Daedalus II, a new Boston drama company. Playing at 367 Boylston St., Boston Thursday and Friday at 8 and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10:15. Through Jan. 29. For info call...
...econd half of Daedalus leaves the theme of adulthood and leaps into the future of the U.S. in general and public policy in specific. Overall the writing falls down, but the essays pick up in substance. Few articles could be more topical or crucial to the discussion of present day issues than Glazer's "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity--and Ethnicity." The article serves as a vehicle for Glazer's oft-propounded thesis that liberal policy-makers who insist that differences between races result only from discrimination will eventually polarize the nation at the expense of fraternity. He criticizes those who blast...
What is disheartening about this particular piece is that Glazer does a much better job explaining the same thesis in his longer work Affirmative Discrimination. Daedalus is simply a distillery for Glazer. We get his essence without getting any of the facts to attempt to back his contention. This shortcoming is a function of length; he cannot monopolize the 250 pages or so that he needs to explain and defend his thesis. Barring that, we must settle for an abbreviated historiography of discrimination and the naked conclusions he draws...
...affliction of writing at short lengths on all-too-familiar topics pervades the entire issue. The effect is profoundly negative. It reduces Daedalus to the status of a trade journal for intellectuals in the same fashion that Sporting News, which excerpts routine pieces by the best baseball writers in the country, is a trade journal for baseball nuts. The intrusion of sports similes is usually read as the utmost rebuke, but this analogy should not be taken that way. Both Sporting News and Daedalus can be purveyors of valuable information--although Sporting News is so in a much less pretentious...