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Enough of this undirected philosophizing, I hear you saying. Put your money where your mouth is, and then remove it and somehow paste it onto this page so the readers can read it. The headline catcher this week is Phillip Berrigan. Berrigan first stepped into the limelight as an anti-war activist of particularly strong beliefs, although this week he will rail against nuclear arms and nuclear energy. Or take Harvey Wasserman, a leader of the Clamshell Alliance, the group that staged the demonstration at the Sea brook nuclear power plant site, and Sidney Lens, a peace and labor activist...
...explanation for murder or theft, there is no one cause for writer's block. But Grotjahn, who discusses the problem in his book Beyond Laughter, believes hostility is the fundamental reason. Writing is an aggressive demand for attention. It can be blocked when a writer projects his anger onto reviewers and readers. "It's the fear of being attacked," says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Walter Stewart, "the fear that you will be treated as contemptuously as you would like to treat everyone else...
...boost to his ego when he stepped onto Baker Field and botched the first extra-point of the season against Columbia. "I was more worried about missing it than just kicking it straight through," he now says...
Peter Dobereiner, in recounting Crosby's exploit, wrote: "Stepping onto that tee, with the ocean crashing against the rocks below and the sea lions honking derision, the golfer is a tumult of emotions. Fear, awe, admiration and indecision fight for supremacy...Nowhere is he offered the chance of a richer prize or a more enormous failure. It is quite possible to stand on that tee and hit ball after ball into the Pacific and many a man has done so. On the other hand, Bing Crosby can look back and reflect that his life has not been in vain, even...
...politics have failed as usual to consider. With the country's population rapidly becoming comparatively older and healthier, the legitimacy of mandatory retirement rules is an issue which the federal government must face. But the current bill will do nothing more than shift the burden of a nowin tradeoff onto the segments of our society that are already receiving the hardest knocks in the U.S. labor market. Ideally, individuals would be able to work as long as they are productive, just as they should be able to retire at a reasonable age, secure in the knowledge that society will provide...