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...value, through language and throughaction. As Frederick Henry discovers in A Farewellto Arms, it is precisely because "You could not goback" that you were forced to rebuild. In AFarewell to Arms. Henry discovers that "If you didnot go forward what happened?" The authentictragedy in Hemingway is the hopelessness of thehuman situation: "The world breaks everyone. Butthose that will not break it kills. It kills thevery good and the very gentle and the very braveimpartially." But it is Hemingway's discovery,momentous in his time and in ours, that the deathof bravery is not a sufficient reason for notbeing brave.CrimsonAmanda...
...Lord Kames (1696-1782), had remarkedthat the differences between races could hardly beaccounted for by environment. He held that whites,Blacks, and Indians were inherently differentspecies. Had he not 'known' that God created onlyone single pair of the human species, he mighthave believed that "God created many pairs of thehuman race, differing from each other bothexternally and internally; that he fitted thesepairs for different climates, and placed each pairin its proper climate." But, religious man that hewas, Kames rejected this theory...
...Accident. Through May 7. AmericanRepertory Theatre Company, Hasty Pudding Theatre,12 Holyoke St., Cambridge. 547-8300. By Carol K.Mack, this play is a fascinating, constantlyunfolding mystery that probes the depths of thehuman psyche, fusing reality and illusion. Adisoriented women searches for her identity wipedout by an "accident" that she cannot remember...
...became interested in the work of StanislavGrof, who had extended our understanding of thehuman unconscious through the use of non-ordinarystates for consciousness for exploring thepsyche," Mack says...
Students endorse the New Pathway. Richard S.Hamilton, a second-year medical student, says thatthe program "gave him an understanding of thehuman aspect of medicine...