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Madly Christian. Cobb faults modern philosophy for drawing too sharp a metaphysical distinction between man and his environment. Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Sartre-none has granted the subhuman world "a reality such that it can be the object of man's concern," he writes. Theology has followed suit. A weak faith in the value of creation tends to undermine belief in the Creator, and vice versa. Man is left only with his self-interest, which, however enlightened, will not provide sufficient motivation for ecological survival...
...large influx of protestant settlers in the 17th century. These settlers were not unlike the American colonists of the same period and the attitude of the Ulster settlers towards the native Irish was much like the attitude of Americans towards Indians. The natives were a nuisance and were subhuman, furthermore they were Catholic...
Jane's rescue from the subhuman existence of a mental-hospital ward is one of several hundred dramatic improvements that have been achieved by a relatively new-and hotly debated -technique known as reinforcement therapy. Unlike psychiatric techniques which seek to deal with deep-seated causes of a patient's psychosis, reinforcement therapy concentrates on controlling and guiding everyday behavior. Its basic principle is that the residual signs of normality in an insane person should be encouraged by praise and applause-in effect, reinforced and taught with the help of tangible rewards...
...genuinely intimate love scenes, in the comic portrait of Brenda's super-athletic, subhuman brother (Michael Meyers), in the feline mother-daughter skirmishes, Director Larry Peerce (One Potato, Two Potato) has produced some rare moments of high social criticism. But he has an uncertain grasp of his vehicle, and periodically it lurches out of control. At times, Benjamin seems to be playing Dustin Hoffman's gawky second cousin rather than the acrimonious Neil of Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding...
Privileged Powers. The question was whether, despite the enthusiasm that his visit evoked, Paul would be able to narrow the tremendous differences that exist between Latin America's two principal blocks of Catholics-the peasants living in subhuman conditions and the ruling elite. These two forces have been in conflict ever since the continent was colonized, and their struggles have usually been resolved either by the aristocracy's maintaining power through the military or by the peasants' destroying the landed oligarchy through bloody revolution, as occurred in Mexico early this century and later in Bolivia...