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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding Mr. Alistair Cooke's remarks on British correspondents, and in particular Mr. Don Iddon. I am a Briton by birth and recently spent over two years back in England, where I was appalled at what Mr. Iddon wrote in his columns about the American way of life...
Believers & Atheists. Existentialists find themselves in head-on collision with the most widely accepted tenets of many great philosophers-Plato, Descartes, Kant, Spinoza and Hegel. Their particular enemy is Hegel, for his insistence that all reality can be encompassed in a rational structure. It was this that inspired the melancholy Dane, Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55), to raise the flag of philosophic revolt against all purely rationalist and positivist systems, and to declare that reality and truth are within man himself and his actions, whether they be rational or no. Kierkegaard argued that the central, all-important fact about...
...others named their method Daseinsanalyse, from Heidegger's term for existence, Dasein (translated as "being here and now"). The new approach was not formalized in a new school, designed to supplant earlier "depth psychology" methods, but permeated many of them. Though its greatest acceptance came among eclectics (no particular school), it has been taken up by many Freudians and some Jungians and Adlerians, and recently in the U.S. by followers of Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm...
...said Dr. May, has fallen particular prey to "Western man's preoccupation with mechanistic methods, his apotheosis of technique." For technique, worshiped as a way of controlling nature, has led to "the corollary need to see human personality as an object of control like the rest of nature." And the availability of techniques for an infinite variety of purposes has resulted in neurotic activity, "keeping busy" for its own sake, because "to do is often easier, and may allay anxiety more quickly, than...
...fired boosters. When its two booster engines stop firing, the main body, propelled by the central sustainer engine, flies out of the short cylindrical after-section that carries the boosters (see diagram). With the boosters gone, the sustainer engine has less dead weight to carry into space. In this particular model, the sustainer was designed to burn 13 seconds longer than in the regular models. Without this extra thrust, needed to put the Atlas into orbit, it would have plunged into the Atlantic 6,000 miles from Cape Canaveral...