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Brushing aside Freud's dictum as a matter of semantics and logic-chopping, Academy President Kenneth Ellmaker Appel. a Philadelphia psychiatrist, set the tone for the academy's work: "A hundred million Americans [the estimated enrollment in churches] can't be wrong. Church membership is helping people to live more worthwhile and satisfying lives."* Mental health, he said, is inseparably intertwined with questions of moral values, as well as with feelings of guilt, anxiety and insecurity. Said Executive Director George C. Anderson, associate chaplain at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen...
...About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right," T. S. Eliot once wrote, "and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong." The Eliot dictum applies just as handily to the great controversies of history, among which the Dreyfus case ranks high. British Historian Guy Chapman would like to change the conventional way of being wrong about the case, not by suggesting that the French artillery captain was guilty after all, but that those who shaped the treason charges...
Until last week the political heirs of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk-Republicans and Democrats alike-have maintained a tacit agreement to stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct...
...Indian Fighter (Bryna; United Artists). "Decline in creative power," said Historian Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler, is "most obvious [in] the taste for the gigantic." If this dictum is true, the moviegoer of recent years has been seeing the sharp decline of the western. Gone is love's old sweet story of strong, silent him and dimity her. In its place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely...
Since Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier uttered his famous dictum, "A house is a machine to live in," his followers have outdone themselves in paring down structures to their bare bones. While their efforts, seen from the outside, have often produced some handsome glass-walled slabs, the effect on the inside has too often been that of a streamlined, air-conditioned nightmare. To counteract these trends, a handful of modern architects have moved back towards rough tex tures and hand-worked surfaces to get away from the "over-calipered look...