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...takes in only teachers. Nor is it wont to equate teachers with doctors or lawyers as professionals who can pick their clients and set their fees. It sees teachers as overworked employees who deserve "a single salary schedule" starting at $6,000 and rising to $14,000-still the millennium in most places. To that end, President Megel steers what he calls "a progressive, dynamic course, aimed at closer affiliation with the A.F.L.-C.I.O." As he sees it, "salary is still the unmistakable measurement of the desirability of a job, whether shoveling coal or teaching in a classroom...
...opportunities that the U.S. and its allies must meet, and indeed exploit, with all their ingenuity and effort. The treaty is a new factor in what is plainly a more hopeful era in the cold war (see THE WORLD). As the President said, it is by no means "the millennium." But it carries in its brief and direct text some hope that it may become, in the President's words, "a historic mark in man's age-old pursuit of peace...
Rage at the World. In an era when the philosophers of the French Enlightenment were arguing that man was a rational being whose natural instincts were good and had only to be allowed free expression to achieve the millennium, De Sade insisted that man's true instincts were to steal, rape and murder...
Tertullian condemned the theater as the "shrine of Venus," and it took the church a millennium to change its judgment . . . There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards. You, sir, are such...
...thinks he can be infinitely shaped by society. Freud thought every life was blighted by the childhood Oedipus complex; Fromm sees nothing worse in childhood than a healthy rebellion against parental authority. Fromm finds Marx much more congenial than Freud because he promises so much more, once the socialist millennium has arrived: a free and unfettered individual, brimful of love and "productivity." Writes Fromm: "Marx had an unbroken faith in man's perfectibility rooted in the Messianic tradition of the West from the prophets through Christianity, and Enlightenment thinking...