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...always trying to find ways to involve more alumni, particularly now that economic problems have made the private gift more important. A drive is underway to attract younger alumni to counteract the long-standing tendency of alumni to "disappear until their tenth reunion," as Shultz puts it. Maurice Lazarus '37, former AHA president, already sees a "growing interest on the part of more recent alumni," and the AHA is considering forming a New Class Officers' Organization that would bring together young alumni between reunion years. Shultz imagines this group will offer six week seminars at a low cost for young...
...recollections of the Yom Kippur War continue to haunt and obsess the Israelis," said former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban two weeks ago in Tel Aviv at the First International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in War and Peace. The war was "a psychological disaster," added Psychologist Richard Lazarus of the University of California at Berkeley. It "may signal the start of a major personality change for Israelis." Constant political tensions, he added, have turned Israel into a "great natural laboratory" for the psychosciences...
...Lazarus, an American Jew, gently suggested that the Israelis' belief that they can master any situation may have produced some scapegoating after the Yom Kippur War. His reasoning: if a war goes badly, a people who deeply believe their fate is in their own hands have no one to blame but their leaders. He also feels that Israelis may be employing "middle knowledge"-a term which refers to the process by which a dying person suppresses knowledge of his predicament in order to maintain hope...
...none of the other three Gospels mention the Lazarus incident, and all are presumed to be dated before John's time. Would not such a fateful miracle be reported by everyone...
Brown readily allows that the Lazarus account is a dramatic embellishment by John of an event that is nonetheless in some way historical. In the Gospels there are other instances of Jesus raising a dead person (the son of the widow of Nain in Luke), and Brown suggests that John may have transposed a similar event to the end of Christ's ministry to symbolize in one act the audacity of his miracles...