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Sophomore defenseman Tony Patton scored first at 4:57 of the opening period on a long lift from the blue line, when Jim Colt screened Husky goalie Ray Picard...
Near the end of World War I, a promising Swiss diagnostician named Max Picard left the University Hospital in Heidelberg and gave up the practice of medicine. He deserted his profession because he felt that doctors, fascinated by the mechanics of medicine, were losing sight of their patients as individuals. To get a better perspective, Picard studied philosophy, finally moved to the tiny village of Caslano, Switzerland. Now 63, he has lived there ever since, quietly writing and studying, in a one-man effort to diagnose the spiritual troubles of modern times...
Born a Jew (his great-grandfather was a rabbi), Picard became a Roman Catholic in 1939. But long before his conversion, his writings reflected a Christian horror of the divided and uncertain world around him. Often more emotional than logical, they are written in German in a tense prose-poetry that is hard to translate. Now, with the publication in the U.S. of Picard's most famous book, The Flight from God (Henry Regnery; $2.50), U.S. readers get a look at the essence of Max Picard's philosophy...
...Flight from God has some of the quality of a spiritual Nineteen Eighty-Four, although Picard, who uses no allegories, plainly feels that 1984 is here right now. He calls his times "The World of the Flight" because unbelief and "Dread"-"The Flight from God"-have replaced Faith as the essence of life. In a world where all truths have become relative and experimental, the only reality left is change. "The man of the Flight," Picard writes, "has no firm standard against which to measure himself. He has only the possibilities." Philosopher Picard's book is a fleeting, sometimes...
...there any hope for the men of the Flight? Picard has no answer, except his own faith. Concluding, he tries to express for his century what Francis Thompson said for the 19th, George Herbert and John Donne for the 17th, and the Psalmist centuries before.* Writes Max Picard: "Whithersoever they may flee, there is God . . . Ever more desperately they flee, but God is already in every place, waiting for them to come...