The Eichmann Trial
Sir:
Israel has a nice problem on its hands with its much, much publicized Adolf Eichmann affair.
Not to put him to death would arouse the anger of the thousands who survived the concentration camps and the thousands of relatives of those who did not.
To kill him would be like televising somebody being tortured to death, and all kinds of humane societies would cry for mercy.
PINCHOS HOFFMAN Wickliffe, Ohio
Sir:
Let us now sensibly focus the ideological issue. Let us not lose sight of its challenge to Western morality, an integral part of the Christian concept.
The Eichmann case is not a personal revenge. Eichmann is the symbol of an era, a dread precedent. This is being put on trial in Israel for world consideration. It is imperative that all free peoples join in condemning genocide and stamp it out for all times.
R. HEFTEL Los Angeles
Angst
Sir:
Congratulations on your article, "The Anatomy of Angst." As a Protestant minister, I found it particularly descriptive of the issues and dynamics within my own parish and among the people of this suburb.
Perhaps I reveal my own anxiety in reflecting my pleasure at finding an appraisal of the American scene that agrees with my own observations. It is good to find confirmation of my own prejudices and feelings in a quarter as significant as that of TIME. (THE REV.) C. EUGENE SILL Hillcrest Congregational Church Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Sir:
Why look beyond the pages of TIME in your search for the causes of Weltschmerz ?
Laos, Cuba, Africa continue to boil. Mobs riot in Seoul, Black Muslims rally in Chicago, TV is bad, even baseball declines. Everywhere the have-nots are vocal about their anxiety to have, and the haves are doubly anxious to hang on to what they have. Is it any wonder that the comfortable U.S. is afflicted by fear of the unknown future?
MITCHELL J. MULHOLLAND Becket, Mass.
Sir:
I rarely look at TIME and even more rarely read it. You would probably call me an "intellectual." However, as a research psychologist who is attempting to understand guilt, anxiety, defense, and other such topics, I read your cover story. I cannot express the intensity of my feelings of concern, disgust, anger and frustration. Indeed, I must add anxiety about TIME, its editors, its writers and its regular readers.
LEONARD M. LANSKY, PH.D. Lexington, Mass.
Sir:
I'll bet this article is more therapeutic than five years on the couch!
HARRY FREED
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Sir:
We Buddhists believe that the cause not only of anxiety but of all other troubles is a deep-rooted illusion known as "self." For the belief in the existence of self makes the mind believe that it exists as an amorphous continuum, which appears to be the "I." Since the "I" exists in a continuum, it is an inescapable receiver of all pains and pleasures of the past, the present and the future. Hence we tend to think: " I" was happy a moment ago, now "I" am unhappy and what will "I" be next moment?"