Volume 9, Number 5 · September 28, 1967
Love in a Cold Climate
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 401 pp., $8.50
The Americanization of the Unconscious
by John Seeley
International Science Press, 456 pp., $6.50
The Healing Partnership
by Bernard Steinzor
Harper & Row, 264 pp., $5.95
It is difficult to believe that three men wise and humane enough to have written these books should have survived in our world at all, let alone flourished personally and professionally. That they should so largely share a set of values, and that those values should have led them to common concerns about the fate of human beings in our society is itself an important social datum. All three authors are fundamentally concerned with the loss of community in our society, and with the way that loss affects what we may become. Yet they occupy different positions, and have very different responsibilities. Their agreement, then, on a common evaluation of our social circumstances and of the difficulties those circumstances create is reassuring evidence that the loss of community cannot be total and may not be irredeemable. We still have enough root-stock to grow what we need, if only the climate permits.
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