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...meditative loneliness, a single customer last week sipped a beer in Chad's Twist Lounge-the only nightclub left in Phenix City (pop. 29.000). on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochie River, across from Columbus. Ga. All that day, members of the Chamber of Commerce had been stringing Christmas lights across the city's main street; a local radio station had hired a plane to bombard the town with colored pingpong balls that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade...
Truly, our national salvation lies in Dr. Phenix's "democracy of worth," for it is the political and social ideal of the Judeo-Christian faith...
...Phenix of Columbia-a onetime Quaker turned Presbyterian, an Army chaplain turned meteorologist, a physicist turned reverend, appears equally confused about the technique inherent in leading children to avoid "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in their adult lives...
...Phenix has denounced the one great fundamental of education as the snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
Professor P. H. Phenix has correctly observed that again, amid unparalleled success, man has failed to equal the ideal. However, his ideas are somewhat less than "profound," more they are the "re-found" ideas of Plato's Republic. Like Plato, Professor Phenix slips into the habit of assuming that the lessons of truth learned by philosopher, professor, preacher, kings through protracted thought and laborious revelation can be taught to the average man. Is the "supreme worth" to be patiently taught and docilely learned, or is it rather to be discovered amongst wickedness, desire and imperfection, a kernel of redeeming...