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...which he meant a soul. Modern man has a psyche, by which he is apt to mean a cumbersome machine full of id and superego, conscious and unconscious, with optional accessories such as Oedipal feedbacks. In place of the soul he has put psychology. In The Death and Rebirth of Psychology, published last week (Julian Press; $4), Dr. Ira Progoff suggests that with recent modifications psychology can now give man back his soul...
...have been created. In the Golden Tri angle business district, where no new office building had been put up between 1930 and 1945, one-fourth of the area has been rebuilt in ten years, raising assessed property value by 25%. Now Pittsburgh is opening the second round of its rebirth. All told, $150 million worth of new buildings are under construction or due to start next year. On the downtown fringes, Pittsburgh is spending another $100 million to clean out the wormy Hill District slums-95 acres of cobbled streets, blighted homes, vice, crime and poverty. Much of it should...
...YEAR OF MY REBIRTH (342 pp.)- Jesse Stuart-McGraw-Hill...
Some of the world's ancient faiths are having a rebirth-often to the discomfiture of an expanding Christianity. Perhaps the most spectacular renaissance is under way in Hinduism...
...last, after six years of experiment, he sat down beneath a Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in northeastern India and determined not to move until he had plumbed the secret of existence. After 49 days it came-what Buddhists call The Enlightenment. "I knew," said Buddha, " 'rebirth' has been destroyed, the higher life has been led; what had to be done has been done. I have no more to do with this world...