Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LEANDRO ACONCHA: One day at his home in Fuengirola, Spain, when he was three, Leandro heard a tune on TV and asked his father to teach it to him. Papa Roberto, an ex-concert pianist from Colombia who had moved to Spain to go into real estate, led the boy to the piano, picked out the melody, and stood amazed as Leandro repeated it perfectly...
Leandro has had only one instructor, his father. "I would like to be his teacher all my life but I realize I am dealing with an extraordinary talent," says Roberto. "When the time comes for me to hand him over to a conservatory I will hope to at least maintain my relationship with him as his best friend, as well as his father...
...while. Leandro's parents (Mother Dora is a Swiss-born interior decorator) prefer to keep him in the Fuengirola elementary school (where his passion is arithmetic), and limit his concertizing to six weeks a year. The elder Aconchas think the boy needs that much exposure to obtain, says Roberto, "the psychological advantage of being used to an audience." Above all, they want to avoid exhibiting Leandro as a public curiosity. But, says Roberto, "he enjoys playing so much that he regards the concerts as a sort of holiday treat...
...Indian Jesuits still take their cue from the adaptability of the pioneer missionary, Father Roberto de Nobili, who adopted the ascetic life of the Hindu holy men shortly after he came to India in 1605. The Jesuits reflect the broad spectrum of the subcontinent's culture. At Poona, for instance, a group of De Nobili Jesuits are experimenting with an Indianized version of the Mass that incorporates Indian serving dishes, Indian music, language, and postures of prayer. Father Matthew Lederle, a German-born Jesuit who is now an Indian citizen, directs the serene modern center of Sneha Sadan...
...humanistic psychology, as well as in much contemporary psychoanalysis, there is a new sense that man can become a more active force in shaping his life. Freud, with his emphasis on man's being driven by his unconscious, tended to undercut the notion of will. Writes Italian Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli: "The will can be truly called the unknown and neglected factor in modern psychology, psychotherapy and education." San Francisco Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis agrees. "Knowledgeable moderns put their back to the couch, and in so doing may fail to put their shoulders to the wheel." But this should change. Wheelis...