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...traditional concept of original sin is currently undergoing more se rious and skeptical scrutiny than ever be fore. Liberal Protestants began their criticism in the last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there is no Biblical basis for the doctrine...
NONE OF the professors have liked Ridgeway's book much. James Billington who teaches medieval history at Princeton and doubles as a consultant for the CIA, called it "childish" in a Life review. Ernest Van den Haag, retained in 1964 to testify against the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, participated in the WNDT panel as a professor from the New School for Social Research, and scoffed at Ridgeway's pessimism...
...main case against p.r. is not that it brainwashes people -it is not really powerful enough to do that. As New School Sociologist Ernest van den Haag says, "Public relations can seduce, but it cannot rape." What is often most troubling is that p.r. can place a kind of shield between the public and reality. It creates the feeling that smiles are not quite real, laughter not quite spontaneous, wit not quite unrehearsed, praise or blame not quite from the heart, elegance not quite instinctive, courage not quite brave and virtue not quite clean. The best p.r. men know...
Actually, a great deal of significant anti-intellectualism today comes not from outside but inside the intellectual community. New York University Sociologist Ernest van den Haag points out that much campus protest, though carried on in the name of academic freedom, is really mindlessly anti-intellectual in its indiscriminate call for "activism" and hell raising. Critic Renata Adler thinks that perhaps the strongest anti-intellectual forces at present are the "uneducated and unearned nihilism" of pop art, which holds that the meaningless is entertaining, and the enthusiasm for "camp," which holds that the mediocre and the ugly are amusing...
...them race in the twilight at a windless Harvard Stadium and Gunder Haag's 4:05.3 mile record, set in 1943 against Gil Dodds and Bill Hulse, would more than likely go by the boards...