Simon J. Frankel
Academia's Angst
T OM WOLFE once said that the experience of being a graduate student was so excruciatingly painful that he and
Costly Losers
B LARING HEADLINES last week trumpeted the news that a new financial plan had been worked out to save the
Stepping Back From the Brink
T HERE IS A SENSE OF DESPAIR in recent writing on the nuclear armaments dilemma. The works continue to arouse
Freud Revised
B ooks which tell us that the work of the intellectual pioneers that we have come to idolize was actually
Fruit of the Tainted Tree
E THYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when
Out for Blood
W ith so many cherished myths falling by the wayside, being told Margaret Mead was wrong about Samoa doesn't come
Ethical Difficulties
O UTSIDE of the legal profession, not too many heads were turning in February when the American Bar Association met
Bon Voyage
W HEN FRANCOISE SAGAN, the celebrated French novelist, was hospitalized in the late 1970s for what turned out to be
A Life in Medicine
M OST CREATURES' brains secrete a simple substance which acts as the brain's own painkiller. Why should such an effective
Why We Are What We Are
F EW SCIENTISTS WOULD tackle the subject of this book "Why we are what we are, why we do what
Bureaucratic Blindness
G OVERNMENT AGENCIES assigned a particular task often pursue it with a single-mindedness, an inertia, that precludes any kind of
