Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four "Reflections" have appeared to date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries...
...know little to guide policy and reform," says Sizer. "Yet the Federal Government is spending a tiny sum on basic inquiry--and the 90th Congress appears ready to cut even that...
Greater than the Sum. In defining such goals, Frankl runs into difficulty. In English, he says, he is forced back upon the word spiritual, but he insists that this does not require a religious connotation. No psychiatrist, he points out, can prescribe religion for an irreligious patient. At the same time, just as emphatically, he warns psychiatrists against suppressing or ignoring whatever religious feelings, overt and latent, a patient may have...
...situation at any given moment. It is, he insists, something that each man must find for himself, through his conscience. When he does so, he is likely to find that it has a Gestalt quality -the whole of an experience is, in some indefinable way, greater than the sum of its parts...
...activist glorifies the act: man is the sum of his acts, what he understands doesn't count, it's what he does which is the ultimate measure of the man. The academic protects his vested interest with equal fervor: the action must be subordinate to understanding...