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...really got a laugh out of your statement, "But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs ... by producing much of what they eat." We farm and raise corn and soybeans. We have a small garden, but we do not raise beef, pork, eggs, chickens, wheat or coffee. If we ate only what we produced on our farm, we would...
...development of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its stockpiling of conventional weaponry, including ammunition, as well as the stockpiling of food grains. If one has so many things in one's hands, the day will come when one's fingers begin to itch. You can't eat those materials or wear them. You must use them somehow. We've already been through two world wars, and both started from small incidents. Such things often develop independent of one's will, perhaps even independent of the will of the present Soviet leaders...
Bloch's view is part of her new book, So the Witch Won't Eat Me (Houghton Mifflin; $9.95). Despite its slightly frivolous title, its central idea is quite serious. After 25 years' work with some 600 patients, most of them children, she concludes that fear of infanticide is crucial in early psychological development and sometimes in later psychological problems as well. Among her patients, she points out, she "never found anyone who did not have this fear and whose lifestyle was not designed to deal with...
Harvard skiers, on the other hand, do not necessarily eat, breathe and run skiing. While many of their opponents in this weekend's Division I carnival at UVM have their sights on the Olympic games, the Crimson doesn't even have its own permanent coach...
Harvard has tried to teach me otherwise, but it has not succeeded. I still believe that a sliding scale of ethical values can only slide so far before it runs into unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer, that people who are forced to live under despotic governments cannot enjoy even the most basic human liberties. But Harvard, for all its professed concern with proper behavior, does not act as if it recognizes these facts. Tied up in professional ethics, it ignores human ethics...