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...rise in life expectancy since the current official table was approved in 1941. Back in 1941, as insurance actuaries figured it, the life expectancy of a newborn infant in the U.S. was 62 years; in the new table the figure is 68 years. The 1941-58 increase, largely a result of antibiotics and other medical advances, is about equal to the life-expectancy increase in the U.S. between...
...sharpest illustration of the difference between the existential and earlier approaches, Dr. May took the well-worn Oedipus situation and recapped it. To Freud, Oedipus meant that a child has a sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...
...attitude to anxiety and guilt. In older, conventional psychology and psychiatry, says May, there was no place for really fundamental anxiety-about such basic issues as being and non-being-and there was no way to treat it. Most anxiety was assumed to be neurotic and the result of emotional injury or repression of instincts, which led to a blockage of the patient's capacities for fulfillment in work or in life generally. This was most obviously true in the case of unconscious repression of sexual urges, such as Freud described, and could be effectively treated by uncovering...
Carleton is not without its own severe critics. Not long ago the faculty completed an assessment of the college, decided that the cherished 10.5-to-1 student-faculty ratio and 1,000-odd enrollment were wasteful. Result: by 1965, the ratio will be increased to 12.5-10-1 (students will do more independent studying), and the enrollment raised...
...school board then adopted a hands-off attitude that challenged the architects to do their best. Result: Sarasota schools, once a collection of piano crates and grim barracks, are now a showcase of school architecture. Among Sarasota's best...