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...Could it be," he asks in his book, The Sane Society, "that the middle-class life of prosperity, while satisfying our material needs, leaves us with a feeling of intense boredom . . . that modern civilization fails to satisfy profound needs in man?" Capitalistic society, Fromm charges, has turned men into robots who have sur rendered their freedom to machines. They suffer, he writes, from a "receptive orientation in which the aim is to receive, to 'drink in,' to have something new all the time, to live with a continuously open mouth, as it were." They can be saved only...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. Whether or not Weiner intended some symbolic use for that name, he has drawn a wooden and immobile character. Woody's personality seems to be a function of his political beliefs: active member of SANE, NAACP-good guy. But later, no time for SANE, fires a Negro employee...
...Sane but Psychotic. Was Hess mad? Was his mission an insane gamble? Author Leaser thinks not. He does not gloss over any of Hess's strange behavior (Hess once had magnets fixed around his bed to draw harmful influences from his body). But like the panel of psychiatrists who found Hess "psychotic but sane'' before the Nürnberg trials (where Hess got a life sentence as a Nazi war criminal). Leasor sees Hess as an unbalanced man obsessed by a childish-and thoroughly Germanic -dream of performing one great convulsive act of patriotism...
Homer Jack, executive director of SANE, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Longfellow Hall. Dues may be paid at the door. Sherry at 5:45 p.m. in Leverett House Junior Common Room...
...hands in the little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...