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...Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst, sociologist and philosopher, will deliver the 1957 Gay Lecture. His talk will be given in Amphitheatre D at the Medical School at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April...
...seminar. The subjects range from the Nature of Music and the Masterpieces of Greek Literature to the History of Science. Last fall one professor started a series of seminars on Human Potentiality, soon had his students jumping from psychology to philosophy to religion, reading everything from Sorokin to Fromm to Alexis Carrel. Surprisingly, says Steere. the course has become the particular favorite of electrical engineers, "whom you usually think of as pretty restricted...
Even the mediocre and the downright bad is worth reading, if it can be used with the faculties awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
Bookstore owners noted no single type of book as the most popular. Their bestsellers were "The Art of Loving," by Eric Fromm, "Views of Harvard," "Don Quixote," Fred Allen's "Much Ado About Me" and "Dylan Thomas' Poems...
Despite certain misgivings with Fromm's theoretical approach, this book more than proves its worth in the searching analysis of unhealthy kinds of love. As in other works Fromm pokes brilliantly through history and myth for examples to support his themes. Yet this volume again leaves one wondering whether Fromm isn't more of a critic than a liberator...