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In tacit recognition of the incompatibility of their work with a university environment, they have established a private organization--the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Leary has already left the University to devote his full energies to this group, and Alpert had also planned to spend much of his time...
The university's notoriously low faculty pay is only part of the story. The main problem is "intolerable" segregationist pressure. Says one professor: "We can no longer devote our primary attention to academic pursuits." The worst effect is loss of the university's best men. "I think we...
The second holder of the Pound Professorship, Hall succeeds Sheldon Glueck, who is retiring from teaching in September to devote his full time to research in criminology. Glueck has held the Pound Chair since 1950.
∙KEEP PREJUDICES ALIVE. "It is really exhilarating to see how words can keep Christians distrustful of one another's churches. Take the prayer which the Carpenter taught his disciples. Do Presbyterians pray to be forgiven of their 'debts' or their 'trespasses'? Do Baptists pray...
Jung notes that nothing is a clearer symbol of peevish authority than a customs inspector-but that is only half the dream. Readers who respect the power of a pun are free to ponder which of his customs Jung didn't want Freud inspecting, and as far as Jung...