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...story went like this: After losing a game of checkers, Gene decided to spend a few months in his room--not because he was sick, but because he wanted to do something daring. So he read all of Marlowe's plays, and Jane Eyre, and a book by Erich Fromm. He stayed in bed, emerging only to touch his toes 10 times, do seven push-ups and eat Chinese, Armenian, French and Greek food...
...activists, on the other hand, are jumping on a bandwagon and celebrating their submission to established authority. "Love for one's country which is not part of one's love of humanity," wrote psychologist Erich Fromm, "is not love, but idolatrous worship...
Over the summer [of 1960] I fell in love. My girlfriend was very political. One of the first days after I got back [to school], I was talking with someone and they told me about a rally being held to protest sane nuclear policy. Erich Fromm and Joan Baez were going to be there...
Such views are often spread through radical study groups that have sprung up on every South Korean campus. Dabbling in authors ranging from Lenin to Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the groups recruit promising freshmen who know little about politics or political theory and soon acquire a taste for sweeping generalities. "Basically our program stresses freedom, independence and democracy," one member says. Some groups run summer camps that bring youths to the mountains for intensive study. Others encourage students to quit school and take up jobs in factories, where they try to organize workers. While police seek to break up the groups...
...company's home state. Although technology accounts for most of the firm's more than $1 million sales, its environmental and urban planning books are in many libraries. In addition, Kaufmann, like his West Coast colleagues, indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author was 59, was rejected by several major houses; Kaufmann found it "hilarious" and published it. The low-selling Almanac of American Letters was issued because the publisher found its collage of literary trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service in the Union Army. The original...