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...apartment on the top floor of Leverett House's F tower once occupied by his old friend, Archibald MacLeish. After talking for more than an hour one morning last week Van Doren arose and went over to the window, which overlooks the Charles, the Business School, and other local phenomena...
...previous revolutionary phenomena in Soviet cultural life can also be understood as political creations. In the aftermath of Stalin's death Ilya Ehrenburg published a novel, The Thaw, which lent its name to a whole period of increased freedom of expression. An otherwise drab story, The Thaw did have some kind words for freedom of expression in art, and was quite a bold venture compared to the material produced during Stalin's last years. The story touched a pent-up longing for freedom that threatened to break forth; the regime quickly clamped down, issued a succession of reprimands to Ehrenburg...
...inspiration phase," and doubtless many others. Then words like "passionate," "creativity," and "courage" are invoked to invest the whole with so thoroughly romantic a context that only the unfeeling would resist. Mr. Sollod on the other hand asserts that maybe research in this area could lead to information about phenomena which are again described in terms that presuppose all the paraphernalia of this one school of psychological thinking...
Perhaps a reminder is in order that there are other points of view about spiritual phenomena that are, albeit older and less fashionable, at least as legitimate as the "learned words and verbal connections" line. The fact that large institutions and complex disciplines are founded on these new theories does not mitigate the arbitrary nature of their initial acceptance...
...knowledge such as Leary might provide could fill a blind spot concerning our inadequate notion of the type of transcendental subjective experience which has not only been the focus of traditional Western religion and many Asian cultures, but which also plays an important role is such diverse modern sociological phenomena as the growth of fascism, the existence of juvenile gangs, and the exceptional dedication of some individuals to a strictly scientific attitude. Robert N. Sollod...