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...essay called Rebirth of God, The Death of Man, Critic Leslie Fiedler observes that "the New Religious are determined to be no inert congregation rehearsing the words of dead Visionaries and half-mythological Saints, but a living church of actual Visionaries and Saints." To them, writes Fiedler, the death-of-God theology was talking about the death of a method-its own-rather than a subject...
...selfesteem, "one can wonder whether the most appropriate corrective experience is to persuade the person of his worthless-ness." Members of Delancey Street, however, defend their rules on the grounds that they provide an opportunity to let off steam, teach humility and prepare the way for a kind of rebirth by erasing an addict's old image of himself...
WITNESSING the rebirth of an International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICC) for Viet Nam is rather like seeing an extinct species spring magically back to life. Soon after the old ICC-which still exists, in vestigial form-was created by the Geneva agreements in 1954, it settled down into a routine of quarrelsome impotence. Lacking any mutually acceptable alternative, Washington and Hanoi seemed determined to try again with a peace-keeping mechanism that has a proven history of failure...
...diverse as fantasist, caricaturist, romantic and symbolist have been applied to Malamud, but he laughs at these terms and suggests: "tragico-comico, realistico-fabulistico; the more the merrier!" As for the themes often singled out in his stories--defeated love and failed ambition, imprisoned souls and claustrophobic lives, spiritual rebirth and redemptive suffering--he asserts that these are universal, and are there for anyone who wants to find them. "Not everything I put in consciously is noted, and people find things in my work I never knew were there. I try not to interpret my works to others...
...real feelings and to find meaning and value in his encounter with death. "The result," Lifton told TIME last week, "can be an increased capacity to feel, or even the kind of expanded consciousness that many seek in drugs or meditation." It can lead also to a sense of rebirth. Ojakangas finds that "things are different for me now. I appreciate everything more, my children, my family, everything." But he is concerned: "I wonder how long these feelings will last. Will I become too busy again to remember...