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Just so, and aptly enough, opens the book Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, a new study by Harvard Lecturer Sissela Bok, an authority on ethics and author of the 1979 book Lying. Scheduled to be published in February, the book is scholarly, cool, painstaking and analytical. Even if it is not likely to crowd out works of romance, sex, adventure and physical fitness, its subject could hardly be more fitting, at a time when the human urge for secrecy sometimes seems on the verge of getting out of hand...
...that Sissela Bok wants to rid the world of secrecy. Far from it. She argues that the practice itself is neutral, only good or bad according to the purposes it serves. Says she: "While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive." It is benign, for instance, when it helps human intimacy or the casting of ballots in democracies...
...Sissela Bok's father, noted economist-sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, shared the economics prize...
...suggest that Sissela Bok's excellent book be made required reading in Cambridge for certain selection members of the Harvard Athletic Department ad--why not?--even for G. Robert Strauss. Andy Noel Cornell Wrestling Coach
...discussion of "the family" or other personal matters. Questions would be directed to her work, and to make sure nothing slipped out. Deane Lord, director of the Harvard News Office, would be present throughout. Nevertheless, the piece ended up as a psychological portrait of the first lady entitled. "Sissela Bok: What does she do Till Derek comes home...