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...Fromm; 432 pages...
...Marx saw it, "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned." Foes charge that the capitalist system perpetuates grave inequalities of wealth and extravagantly rewards success. Communists proclaim that capitalism demands periodic depressions as the way to keep workers poor and subservient. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm wrote that 19th century capitalism's drive for profit made people overly competitive, warped and aggressive. Finally, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith argues that free enterprise values wasteful private consumption more than needed public services...
...carry the wife and three kids to the lake each summer. It is a three-wheeled "people-powered" gadget that relies mainly on its two nearly reclined passengers' ability to pedal an attenuated tandem bike. The little go-cart engine is only for the hills. Explains Student Paul Fromm, ";We can go 40 or 50 m.p.h. ... at least it seems that fast when you're this close to the ground...
...Eric Fromm, Columbia's 1978 number one has turned pro and is reportedly getting "killed" on the European circuit. Two Australian Lions had to be stamped "return to sender" for financial and academic reasons; and the team's top 1979 player, Jeff Papell, was lost to a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder...
...professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...