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...After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly critical of the American Establishment." Arendt spoke for a whole generation when, shortly before her death in 1975, she confessed, "I somehow...
...psychology may be taken a little too straight out of Erik Erikson, or even Gail Sheehy, and the plot verges on the melodramatic (it takes a boating accident to seal the bargain of friendship between the generations). But emotionally On Golden Pond is no less valid for being something of a cliche. Anyway, the characters are so strong that the piece does not play as a cliché. Hepburn, for example may have a less chewy part than has Fonda, but the briskness of her manner, her well-justified image as a no-nonsense individualist who is nevertheless a good...
Holton is the third Harvard professor to give the Jefferson Lecture, following Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development Emeritus, and Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus...
...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...
Such is typical of the importance this country has traditionally conveyed upon its children. It is high time that we recognize the connotations, both political and psychological, of Erik Erikson's prophetic statement, "We were all once small." Edward Zigler, of Yale's department of Psychology, will discuss "Principles of Child Development and Social Policy for Children." Be at William James room 1 on Friday at 4 p.m. to learn and enjoy...