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...article "Invoking the Gods" [March 18] was certainly interesting and, to a classicist struggling to bring about a regeneration of interest in classical literature and culture, might at first appear to be a sign of unimagined success. But alas, from the tenor of your report it would appear that Theologian Miller has little understanding of the nature of the Greek gods. Ancient Greek culture was awash in divine identifications that had to do with what, to us, are secular realities, for example Euripides' beautiful line, "Recognizing one's friends is also a god." The Greek mind saw divinity...
...positive and exciting things happening. To choose only the negative aspects of the school and to ignore the very real positive aspects does a gross disservice to the students, who are fighting to succeed in a society which, they fear, is reluctant to recognize their efforts and their success. TIME'S reporter interviewed science teachers about reading but never interviewed the reading teachers, and you publish a picture of students who excel and imply by the caption that they read at the fifth-grade level...
Spitzer, Marmor and others have urged the A.P.A. membership to uphold the board's ruling. Though they seem likely to prevail when the votes are counted next month, they are unwilling to predict certain success. "Psychiatrists," warns Marmor, "are not immune to the prejudices of their culture...
...movies came of age. Already, three of them have imposed themselves with unusual if mixed force on audience and industry decision makers alike. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which used a fictional character to dramatize a huge chunk of black history, has been the season's critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into...
...book also offers cautionary tales, on subjects ranging from golf as adventure through golf, success at, leading to deterioration of the character, and golf, failure at, caused by thinking too hard about your backswing...