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...their doctors salaries or shares, and assign patients to qualified specialists. A.M.A. fought group plans for years; the surrender was a belated recognition by A.M.A.'s scientific element that these systems can and do give good results. Out of such challenges and accommodations comes 1961's ferment of change in the relation between doctors and patients...
...time is one of ferment and potential rebirth. This is so precisely because it is a time full of chaos ... It was only natural that Sigmund Freud should at the beginning of his career have thought of the irrational aspects of-the human personality as chaotic and potentially dangerous powers ... It did not occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order...
Anxious Intellectuals. This kind of ever-contradictory ferment gives the U.S. an exciting intellectual life, but it also makes anxious intellectuals. The intellectuals, in turn, carry their anxiety to the rest of the country through the immensely fast popularization of new ideas. U.S. intellectuals are forever complaining that no one pays attention to their opinions. This is patently untrue: very likely, they complain merely to cover their own guilt at not being as certain about things as they secretly feel they should be?in short, at not being leaders...
...Reason with Voltaire. As distinguished Historian Brogan sees it, Charles de Gaulle is gradually teaching his people the importance of living in the 20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking photograph: Pablo Picasso, bare to the waist and bronzed, with a flower behind his ear, the eternal...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "France in Ferment" focuses on the nation's troubled youth, interviews Premier Michel Debré and Novelist Françoise Sagan...