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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APPLYING THE METAPHOR of seasons to the different stages in a man's life has long been a common practice for writers of the most varied sort--psychologists, novelists and playwrights through the ages have all taken up the phrase. But no one has ever gone beyond the literary use of the term to explore just what the concept of seasons in a man's life really means. Although psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget have discovered, through intensive study and observation of children, that people go through a given sequence of developmental phases in the early years of life...
Another young American is in the room, who understands what that song means to our generation, looks at me with a haunted expression on his face. It is a sort of Vietnam deja-vu, combined with the horrors of our own decade of ten years later.... In order to gain the reader's sympathies, Feldstein has desperately associated his emotional reflections toward this war situation with the markedly different nature of suffering inflicted by the Nazi Germans and North Vietnamese within very contrasting circumstances...
...committed atrocities in which many innocent Palestinian civilian lives have been taken. The same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...
DIED. Josef Marais, 72, South African-born composer and folk singer who toured for decades with his wife Miranda; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A violinist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Marais collected the rhythmic calypso-style Afrikaner folk songs, which, as a sort of bushveld hillbilly, he was later to sing in the U.S. and Europe...
...using their minds, indeed from the responsibility of collaborating in the democratic process. It means the elevation (or lowering) of the presidency to a kind of magical dictatorship, where everything is the President's responsibility. This is often accompanied by a terrible kind of impatience, almost a sort of hysteria, where every problem, every mistake, or seeming mistake, becomes part of a self-reinforcing pattern of disaster. When Carter puts huge, long-range problems on the agenda- shrinking Big Government, civil service reform-we say that he overpromises (which he has done in some cases), or that...