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...response to your deplorable corporate propaganda, which masquerades as an article about students' efforts to bring fast food to Harvard Square, I suggest that it would be far better for Harvard and the community with which it interacts if Ronald and his pals stayed in Oak Brook. --Joel B. Pollak...
...boom in job opportunities in high-tech and service industries, there continue to be serious difficulties in the labor market for workers who are less skilled. By emphasizing growth in specific labor markets, you may strengthen the misperception that there are many jobs available for the disadvantaged. JOEL POLLAK Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Unlike Sutton, Pollak, a former editor for the Nation, met Dr. B. The writer's younger brother Stephen spent five years at the Orthogenic School before his accidental death in 1948. Meeting some 20 years later, Bettelheim loftily informed Pollak that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his Medea-like mother was wholly to blame for Stephen's emotional ills and, quite falsely, that the brother had committed suicide. No wonder Pollak left that encounter mentally comparing Bettelheim to "the evil Doctor Sivana, arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel...
...Creation of Dr. B. makes clear, Pollak's opinion of Bettelheim has not much improved. Still, the author does provide plausible rationales for his subject's often bizarre behavior. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, Bettelheim was a frail, nearsighted child who was acutely conscious of his physical ugliness. As an adult, he was plagued by fits of depression and haunted by the memory that his father had died of syphilis...
...work in Vienna with an autistic child he called Patsy. In fact, the girl had been treated by his first wife, Gina Alstadt, at a time when Bettelheim was running his family's lumber business. Similarly, Bettelheim boasted of having been a member of Austria's anti-Nazi resistance. Pollak quotes Alstadt as saying, "Bruno was not interested in politics...