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...Bettelheim devoted himself to the arts and won a doctorate in esthetics before switching to psychology. A Jew, he was sent to Dachau, then to Buchenwald. There he observed fellow prisoners who literally died of terror or -like autistics-totally withdrew from rational life. That experience led to the monograph that was the forerunner of his series of seven renowned books. Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations was published in 1939, shortly after Bettelheim was released* and went to the U.S. This work was made required reading by General Eisenhower for all U.S. Army officers in Europe during World...
Perspectives is an annual review designed "to fill a need not satisfied by the existing journals in the field." Volume I appeared last spring and featured three "monograph-length studies" too long for periodicals and too short for books--"The Origins of American Politics," by Bailyn (112 pages); "American Imperialism: A Reinterpretation," by Ernest R. May (159 pages); and "Attitude: The History of a Concept," by Donald Fleming (77 pages...
Others have served up the subject matter before, but have always done so in small doses--diluting, as Claude Weaver '65 puts it, "the hundred-proof truth with large draughts of humanitarian appeal." Wright's sociological and philosophical monograph, Black Power and Urban Unrest, demonstrates a surprising measure of clarity as well as intuition, acute political savvy as well as a cultivated sense of outrage...
...feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed to death by the heel of one of the white men present." (The NAACP's useful monograph, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, long out of print, has just been reprinted and is available from the New York office for a dollar.) Also on view here is Mrs. Fuller's powerful 1937 work, "The Talking Skull," which depicts a nearly naked lad kneeling on the ground...
Last week Vermeer needed no intro duction. Commemorating the centenary of the publication of Thoré-Bürger's monograph-still the source work on the artist-as well as the 150th jubilee of the Mauritshuis, The Hague has staged an exhibition titled "In the Light of Vermeer" (scheduled to open...