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...ardent Christian, though not committed to any single denomination. Her son is neither quite believing nor quite disbelieving: his friend and mentor Erik Erikson calls him "a very religious man, but not churchy." Coles himself says that his understanding of the poor comes partly from the King James Bible, with "its vision of redemptive possibility living side by side with the possibility for betrayal and tragedy...
...psychological development." He acknowledges his debt to two other psychoanalysts, Anna Freud, who did pioneering studies of the effect of war on children, and Erikson, famous for his papers on Sioux Indian youngsters. So greatly did Erikson impress Coles that he wrote the much lauded, and highly laudatory, biography, Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work, published in 1970. Trying to explain his own influence on Coles, Erikson suggests that...
...helicopter is down. The battalion commander, flying overhead in his helicopter, says he is going in to pick up the downed pilot. His chopper is loaded with electronic gear and it is too heavy for any task that requires acrobatics. "Jesus, Colonel, be careful," whispers the radio operator, Pfc. Erik Lewis, 21. The rescue is successful...
...novel venture in role versatility was conceived by the Norwegian Family Council, a state-financed organization that lobbies for legislation aimed at improving family life. After working out plans with the help of University of Oslo Sociologist Erik Gronseth, the council recruited couples willing to participate in the role-swapping experiment. Among those who volunteered was Anne Ibsen Bulko, 30, a descendant of Playwright Henrik Ibsen, one of the pioneers in Women's Liberation...
...Impressive as Picasso's Cubism now seems, it won no immediate public recognition for its creator. That came only in 1917, when Impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design a new ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra...