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Den unge Grundtvig og Norge

Den unge Grundtvig og Norge

The fraternity of strangers

I greet you on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of The Society of Head and Neck Surgeons. Over the past 30 years, we have united in a bond of kinship as we have faced the peril of cancer of the head and neck as our common foe. It was this feeling of kinship that struck me when I first attended a meeting of this Society. I found myself surrounded by a diverse group who shared a similar heritage and was actively combating this common peril. I never failed to gain strength from the enrichment and affirmation that I found there. All the while, I was reminded of a passage from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables: “Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” We are duty bound to honor these men of foresight who first conceived of this Society and brought us together for the purpose of organizing the battle against head and neck cancer. Let us now reminisce in our mature years on how we understand it all began. The undisputed father of head and neck surgery is Dr. Hayes Martin of the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York. It is not Dr. Theodore Kocher, who did the first upper neck dissection in the 1880s; it is not Dr. George Crile of Cleveland, who systematically planned and performed the first radical neck dissection in the early part of this century; nor is it Dr. Grant Ward of Baltimore, who did the first composite resection for cancer in 1932 and wrote the first comprehensive textbook of head and neck surgery in 1950. Hayes Martin is the father of head and neck surgery because he developed the discipline and produced the disciples who went out to teach and develop their own succeeding generations. And all the while, they were refining the management of the head and neck tumor patient. Along the way, it became apparent to Dr.

SIREN CALL TO DISASTER: THE EMERGING CAMPAIGN FOR US TROOP REDUCTIONS IN EUROPE

Abstract : American defense policy proceeds from the assumption that we have a vital interest in preserving the independence of NATO Europe, a region second in strategic importance only to the United States itself. The paramount elements of strategy in Europe are to deter war, to maintain stability where NATO and Warsaw Pact forces confront one another, and to prevent a successful Soviet invasion by being prepared to fight if necessary. The purpose of stationing US troops in Europe in those difficult years after World War II was to give physical evidence of the stated strategy. Whether called containment or forward defense, the message to friends and enemies was clear: The United States drew a line which could be crossed only at risk of war. While feelings of kinship or compassion played a role in policy formulation, it was in the US interest to insure that Europe would not be dominated by the Soviet Union. It continues to be in the US interest to assure the independence of NATO Europe. If policy is to be more than posturing, if strategy is to be more than empty rhetoric, forces in place must match pronounced intent.

Unhappy Families

A review of Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness and David L. Eng, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy.

The Domestic Adventurer in Melville's Tales

T HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED that the philosophical development which l can be traced through Melville's novels has important ramifications in the tales as well. Six of the tales in particular become more meaningful if viewed as a group and as an extension of one of the major philosophical preoccupations of the novels. Cock-a-DoodleDoo!, Lightning-Rod Man, I and My Chimney, Jimmy Rose, Apple-Tree Table, and Piazza all treat what might be called the Ishmael theme. After the wild defiance of the quest and after what we are led to believe is the acceptance of moral ambiguity which saves him, what is the future of Ishmael? That is to say, how can such an individual without sacrificing his complexity of vision adjust himself, as he must, to home? Melville answers that question indirectly in these particular tales by creating a series of domestic adventurers, widely different in personality, each of whom stands in a more or less mature relationship to his environment.' The tales have several common denominators. The most conspicuous is domesticity as it is embodied in wives and children, hearths, attics, cellars, rambling country homes, pastoral vistas, and old age. The narrators share certain important characteristics: like Ishmael, they come to terms with reality without denying its ambiguity. Like him, their orientation is humanistic-they share a reverence for the past, a love of meditation, a feeling of kinship with nature and divinity, and an enjoyment of friendship and mirth. In some way, these narrator-protagonists are all forced to defend their values against an encroaching modernism which threatens the spaciousness of their experience; but aside from this outside threat, the narrators are notably secure. The agonizing introspection, the search for the phantom of life which dominates the novels, is conspicuously absent from these tales.

The New Political Geography of Inner Asia

Inner asia may be described as a group of regions that have neither a frontage on the s a nor navigable rivers leading to the sea. Under this definition northern, but not southern Iran, and western, but not eastern, Manchuria may be regarded as Inner Asian regions. Most of Inner Asia either touches or stands astride of the Soviet frontier in Asia?the longest frontier in the world, stretching from Turkey to Korea. Tibet, lying distant from Russia, is a notable exception to this rule. An important characteristic of Inner Asia is that most of its political frontiers do not mark the edges of territories inhabited by peoples who differ from each other in language, economic activity, social organization, and in the kind of group loyalty that is founded on a feeling of kinship. They divide kindred peoples from each other and place them under different political sovereignties. As a consequence there is an important difference in the political geography of the frontier zone as between Inner Asian regions and other regions; in Western Europe, for example, where different peoples have lived in adjoining territories for many centuries. This contrast is shown diagrammatically for the French-German frontier in Figure i, and for the Russian-Mongol-Chinese frontier in Figure 2. Both sketches are drawn to illustrate a phenomenon of great importance in political geography: the fact that the difference between two neighbouring peoples is usually no where near as sharp as the drawn on the map. Normally, the frontier line is in fact a legal abstraction; what exists on the ground is not a but a zone?but there can be more than one kind of zone. A man going on foot from France to Germany, walking not more than 20 or 30 miles a day, finds himself at first among people who, allowing for pro? vincial differences, may be called standard Frenchmen. As he goes along, he finds a gradual increase in the intermingling of those characteristics that, taken as a group or complex, we call German and those we call French; first a larger number of loan-words in the local dialect, then more bilingual people; a gradual increase, in territory politically French, of house-types and cultivation practices that are usually associated with Germany, and so on. At or near the frontier of the map he finds the maximum intermingling of French and German; then, as he goes on, a shading off through Germans with decreasing marks of French influence, until he is among standard Germans.1 Figure 1

A Study of Homicides in Seattle, 1914 to 1924

It is still not too unusual to hear an executive or worker in some social agency announce with pride that he is not a social worker, that his work is not charity, and by virtue of some such intangible differentiation, try to set himself upon higher pinnacle than those that surround him. Fortunately such expressions are heard with increasing rarity. For within that broad field whose inclusion in social work adtnits of little question, the person who endeavors to enhance his own position by casting reflection upon the rest of his profession, is defeating his own purpose-is making the task of his fellows just so much the harder. Consciousness of, and pride in, professional kind, is one of the very finest things that comes with professional development. An esprit de corps is the essence of any successful group, feeling of kinship with people who are doing the same thing, who talk the same language, are interested in the same objective. There is no greater loneliness than that of the isolated, and the pioneer social worker who feels that he or she is battling alone, against odds that frequently seem overwhelming, with few who even understand her problems-to such, the development of professional esprit de corps with its emphasis upon the unity of task and interest, brings renewed inspiration, and the encouragement of that feeling of professional kinship is second to none amongst the present day responsibilities of the professional social worker. Professional recognition for social workers will not merely come by going into the highways and byways, and saying, Go to, ow we are professional. It must be conditioned on steady developtnent of those characteristics which are implied in that term. It is this assumption of responsibility which is at the moment the most important thing. No one, least of all Social Workers themselves, should expect to see social work spring full-blown into the position which law and medicine occupy in the Community. But every one, particularly Social Workers, should see to it that they assume direction of those activities and policies which lead to that position.