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...ardent Christian, though not committed to any single denomination. Her son is neither quite believing nor quite disbelieving: his friend and mentor Erik Erikson calls him "a very religious man, but not churchy." Coles himself says that his understanding of the poor comes partly from the King James Bible, with "its vision of redemptive possibility living side by side with the possibility for betrayal and tragedy...
...everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition going back to John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath." But Coles is unique because he has illuminated that tradition with psychiatric...
...quarter remaining sending Harvard up 21-7, Coach Joe Restic felt safe enough to let the second string defense pick up some experience. On the other side of the field, Don Jackson was lying on the Columbia bench so thoroughly trampled by Harvard's defense that reserve quarterback Glenn Erikson had to replace him. Erikson quickly worked over Harvard's second stringers for an 88-yard touchdown drive, picking up 61 of those yards by rolling out or scrambling out of the pocket. Jackson stumbled off the bench to throw the touchdown pass, but the two-point conversion pass...
Harvard's first string came back in, but Erikson moved Columbia through the air for a touchdown, exploiting a slow Harvard secondary that had been protected all afternoon by the Crimson rush. Once again, Jackson came in to try the two-pointer, and finding no one open, headed for a collision with Mike Murr and Mike McHugh a yard short of the goal line...
...less eminent an insider than Harvard Professor Erik Erikson took that critical view. His white mane looking like a halo, Erikson warned the congress against an abstract use of the term aggression and accused the delegates of treating the topic too theoretically. He asked that it no longer be discussed in "decades-old formulations...