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Danny Kaye, L.H.D., entertainer. He helped us to maintain our psychic balance through some of our most anxiety-ridden decades...
...below, can inspire wonderment and envy. Who could not feel underpaid when contemplating the $1.662 million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really preferable to a tax problem...
...Psychic Return. One of the siren songs of newsletter publishing is the shoestring startup cost-typically $10,000, v. 50 to 100 times that much to start a magazine. "All you need is a typewriter, a mimeograph machine and an idea," says Ken Galloway, who founded Capitol Publications in Washington, D.C., eleven years ago with $750 in his pocket; today the firm publishes 19 letters, has a staff of 45 and grosses $2.5 million. Once established, overhead is low and profits are high. For the editors, there are less tangible rewards, like virtually complete freedom of expression. "The psychic return...
...course, Lindbergh is more an item of receding Americana than a hero who engages the popular imagination. Yet the impulse that he represented - exploration and adventure, pressing toward new physical and psychic limits - remains lively in many different areas: in space, in the depths of the oceans, in the mysteries of spiritual phenomena...
...first is that as far as race relations at Harvard go, there are precious few. Minorities and whites in the main don't see each other as individuals but as Representatives of a Position or Metaphors of the Moral Life. Whites undervalue minorities by considering them delicate pieces of psychic porcelain likely to shatter at the first sign of a Stereotype (cf. the Epps Decision) and thus to be beningly neglected; whites overvalue minorities by seeing them as the exemplars of ethical impulses (cf. the "Birth of a Nation" fracas of a few terms ago) that white society...