DR. KASIN'S MOVING and eloquently perceptive paper seems to me absolutely correct in its analysis; it is one of the most important analyses of the plight of adolescents and young adults, compelled to establish fidelity and diversity in a poisonous wasteland, that has come to my attention. If anybody was to understand what was happening twenty years early, I suppose it would naturally have had to be Harry Stack Sullivan; and I am glad to see this become a matter of record. Let us not now— not ever again —praise famous men; but let us give all honor to those who tried to help us be human. They chose the path less traveled by; and if, after all, that has not made all the difference—perhaps not any—well, Robert Frost turned out to be, in the event, a rather corruptible poet and a very untender parent.

It does seem to me, however, that Dr. Kasin draws back from some of the most important implications of his argument. As I understand it, he sees the root cause of youth's turmoil to be anxiety induced by the frustration