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...made for its utility, for its survival value; this should recall the influence of Darwin. Animals do not have a sense of self--they live in a state prior to Cogito ergo sum. So do infants. And this leads at last to Freud and his developmental scheme. "The id," Freud writes, "contains everything that is inherited, that is fixed in the constitution--above all, therefore, the instincts, which originate in the somatic organization and which find their first mental expression in the id in forms unknown...
...their works is contagious. Technically, she borrows from Edward Albee and the theater of the absurd, but the wobbly tone of her play shows that craft will not close a gap between generations. Lillian Hellman is still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that the reformation of society produces a better crop of humans. When people were poor, society stunted them. When people are better off, society corrupts them. After three decades, she is still bemused by Utopia, bored by Existence, and, in T. S. Eliot's lines, "dreaming of systems...
...carloading reports or steel-output figures but in the unconscious minds of mortal men. If the economists want to understand better why the market acts the way it does, they had better start examining the customers' egos and keep digging until they hit pay dirt in the id...
...hardest and asks only for patience and cooperation if things don't run perfectly. If the system works, further mechanical streamlining, such as eliminating coupons at football and other games, may be possible. The most important way students can help the ticket office is by remembering to bring their ID's and coupons to the games and by buying date tickets us early as possible to avoid long lines on Saturdays...
...Harper; $4) contains a smattering of the vast correspondence he carried on with friends and relatives-often from archaeological campsites in such spots as the Gobi desert. Unlike his metaphysical masterwork The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14. 1959) or his mystical treatise on The Divine Milieu (TIME, Feb. ID. 1961), Teilhard's letters are largely free of neologisms, contain wise and witty comments on a world he clearly loved, and clearly saw sub specie aeternitatis. A sampling of Teilhardisms...