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Alienation has been the intellectual's occupational disease throughout history, the assumption being that he must be a critic of society and established values. Says M.I.T. Linguist Noam Chomsky: "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." Unfortunately, human affairs often yield a multiplicity of truths, a fact that some intellectuals find hard to tolerate. In her book, Vietnam, Mary McCarthy made a strong case for U.S. withdrawal, but she rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human...
Nowadays, that will is not always easy to determine. What attitude, for example, should Islam take toward organ transplants? Although tradition forbids the desecration of the Moslem dead, the Kuala Lumpur conference decided that, since Islamic law also holds that life must be preserved if at all possible, human transplants are a legitimate life-saving tool. The meeting dealt similarly with a rather improbable dilemma involving dietary law. Lost in the desert and near starvation, a devout Moslem is suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands...
...division of psychiatry, crisis intervention developed in part from a study in Boston that followed the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, in which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...
...babies born in the U.S. last week, the great majority will grow into normal, healthy children. But 1,600 or so will die before their first birthday-an annual total of 80,000. Anxious to reduce that toll, the Federal Government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chose last week-when baby-food manufacturers were celebrating National Baby Week-to stage an Atlantic City seminar with the somber title "Why Babies...
Thus the artist "Fiddleman" (Malamud's pun) is officially pronounced dead. But out of his almost interminable death agonies, Fidelman (a faithful human being) has been born...