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...major addresses, Erich Fromm aired the best phrases of his "Socialist Manifesto." Viewing the "whole structure of modern man," Fromm, well-known psychoanalyst and prolific writer, said that "with all our education, people seem to be getting dumber than ever," drawing the best applause of the evening. We have machines that act like men, he said, and men who worship machines...
...encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, and a book by Erich Fromm. He was vastly impressed by Gertrude Stein's fear, at the age of fifteen, that soon she would have no more books to read...
...they once did, but a kind of folklore remains, and in it Hyman Kaplan has an unshakable place. The secret of his greatness is the relentless sweep of his untutorable mind. A brooding Kaplan caps a lecture on etymology with the thrust, "Aren't eny voids in English fromm England?" Here is the man to bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts of "to eat" as "eat, ate, full," and only Mr. Kaplan could conceive of the generalissimo of Nationalist...
Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning...
...strictures, Fromm sees Freud as "a truly great man." He concedes that "Western thought is impregnated with Freud's discoveries, and its future is unthinkable without the fruits of this impregnation." The trick is to cull the rotten fruit from the sound apples...