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Plus ca change. plus c'est la meme chose! Anne Tait...
Much of the most powerful work deals with war. There is a remarkable similarity in spirit between several of the poems collected here and the poems written by European poets during the First World War. "My Brother" is often reminiscent of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est:" "...the enemy have not left us any seedling on our lands/Other than the corpses of our dead." Another poem, "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death," evokes the horrors of war indirectly, suggesting that peace is too often taken for granted...
...Several large banks announced that they would drop their prime inter est rate to businessmen from 7% to 6%% in order to boost demand for loans. De clining interest rates are always good news for Wall Street, and after seven months of indifference, investors are showing new confidence in the stock market...
Marin, writing in Harper's, blames the so-called humanistic psychologies and disciplines, including gestalt, est, Arica and the "self-realization" theories of Abraham Maslow. Marin got some support last week at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Charles Hampden-Turner, president-elect of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, agreed that the humanistic movement "is top-heavy on the side of self-concern. I think that is self-defeating. [You seek] to become one with the universe, but instead, you isolate yourself." Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that...
That formulation was crucial; it signified at least the intellectual end of the era epitomized by King Louis XIV of France: "L'etat, c'est moi." Locke carried Tyrrell's idea much farther in his Two Treatises of Government, written partly as a refutation of Filmer and published just after the revolution in 1688. In the Second Treatise, Locke based all political theory upon a rationally ordered universe. The thought was not impiously secular but in fact was the re-verse?a conception of human order deriving entirely from the infinite and infinitely discoverable mind of God. Yet, in effect...