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ODYSSEY OF THE SELF-CENTERED SELF (184 pp.)-Roberf Elliot Fitch-Harcourt, Brace & World...
This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett...
...that presumably links these varied souls, sects and sentiments is worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that...
Dreadful Joy. There has been a kind of five-phase decline of religion via pseudo religion, as Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self-worship is in acute crisis, argues Fitch, and "atheism is at the end of its tether...
Tufts' lone score was the result of still another fumble. The Crimson safety man bobbled a punt in the second quarter, and this time Tufts recovered. John Fitch scored the touchdown. The JV's tallied twice themselves in the period, however, on runs by Dave Ward and Grady Watts. Fred Bartel ran for the extra points...