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THERE IS a curious ambivalence about our present-day view of the heroin addict: although we often give lip service to the notion that he is a sick or psychologically disturbed person who needs understanding and treatment rather than punishment, our more basic and emotional response of revulsion, fear and hatred is reflected in our implicit acceptance of the fact that the use of heroin and other opiates continues to be dealt with primarily through prohibition and the imposition of criminal penalties. This means that addicts--with the exception of a few like physicians and pharmacists--have little choice...
Allen personally agreed with much of the present-day view. However, he emphasized that some police organizations in the U.S. act "in interests defined by the police themselves...
...Your story on "Biological Imperatives" [Jan. 8] presenting Medical Psychologist John Money's belief that hormones secreted before and after birth have less effect on brain and behavior in human beings than the "sex assignment" that takes place at birth fails to answer two questions. First. how did the present pattern evolve from caveman to present-day man without some "natural tendencies" influencing male-ver-sus-female roles? Second, why do animals tend toward the same male-versus-fcmale behavior...
Despite the training and age requirements (at ordination, candidates must be 35 or older), the diaconate is far more flexible than the priesthood and can accept candidates who would not qualify academically for present-day seminaries. Exactly what the new deacons should be, however, is still a matter of argument both inside and outside the program. Many of the deacons want to function as something other than a sort of assistant priest. One thought, backed by Belgium's Leo-Jo-zef Cardinal Suenens, is that they should serve as "activators of grassroots communities"-an idea enthusiastically received in such...
Perhaps Virginia Woolf's current stature and importance to present-day women derives from exactly the excruciating periods in her career. Bell makes clear her courage and fortitude, as he does her expert sense of her craft. In the end, reading Bell's account shows Virginia Woolf had more emotional resiliency than she has been credited for. As a novelist she succeeded in solving the intellectual challenge writing presented by embodying her sensibility in the only shape capable of expressing it. That she was ignorant of great preserves of human experience is undeniable, but to expect more from...