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HINSHELWOOD and NICK MANNING Discusses th ieues, both teoreyeal and racial tat oeaysterepoute comunity ‘woiers ae preeccupe wth, ination fo pallial issues, developments psycho- {horapy and grou therapy and a develop. ‘ments in geet scienaie oulock © 7100 (0108 6 (lot £8.80 0 760 0108 8 tpaper) £5.50 Paychother Aehen sgpone) Eats by Soe watnono-skiwen ‘is colaion tonal essay seco rcstnapenatel nib orp tory. ars ay oa wot tery he papa ba a ses epee oud any Bet ed Te Seictes 9 ico Sar peak ‘The West indian Language Issue in British Schools* VIC EDWAROS Proves he non spciaitwth an eccount fhe angiage al West nsan cacn ane—_| Satna how Inge eon can i vl of reg, wang ord “understanding. a Fouttiga Eoveabon Becks 071001072 X (Got) £8.50 7100 oF78 8 paoen taco Using the Social Sciences ‘ALBERT CHERNS Proestor Chars anaoes th pasties luetratercipetoenp ey ene foci sane, owing how fey vay ‘tnt antes and corona a a ferent eos of aooteatons © 11000991 Sie : Lecrers rine o wil or inspcton Fie Nwownhobd kan ea? ase Nevionn Rood, Honeyon haa, ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL 89 Store Street, London WO | is the question of style: Langer has sald that the difference between the dream and the work of art is that the latter, but not the former, has @ style. But T would guess that i€ people's dreams could be properly compared it would be found that A hte & consistently diferent emotional tone, voce- bulary of symbols and range of virtuosity in his dreams from , and that their siyles ‘might be identifiable, Freud himself, always better at observing detail than constructing theory, is-une paralleled in understanding how the siyie and construction of a dream can incorpo- ‘ale. meanings: how its brightness or-dim- ness, for instance, may be part of its rellec- tions on clarity or contusion, how it may fall into a main clause and a subordinate clause, how two networks of images may ‘branch off from focal points fn an adjacent dream, and $0 on, Rycroft sees the dream as a coinundrum to be unriddled, or as “information” to be Aistinguished from background noise. He lists a number of common dream meta. phors—cars, houses, animals, elothes— with ‘heit almost universal meanings. He has many sensible incidental observations: that ‘dreams, like thoughts, can be shallow and silly as well as significant, that they are best understood in a series just as poem is better appreciated when we know something ‘of the author's work, Hee remarks the absence of food imagery in the dreams of Freud's patients and won Jders if itis related to their middle class [delegation of cooking and shopping to the Servants. He emphasises the ubiquity of body symbolism in deeams, as in everyday speech (the foot of the staircase, the neck of the bottle, and so on), He leaves one puzzle ‘unsolved: dreams, we may now agree, are not all wish-fuliments, yet they do some- fimes seem to assert the contrary of the facts; when do we take the message” literally and when do we reverse it. as [Freud advisee? Rycroft quotes, for instance, the dream Of patient of his who, in a very relaxed sleep, dreamt. ree. times-in-one right-of sheet of pure white light; he remarks that the patient was clearly trying to persuade himself that analysis was & more bilsful Jexperisnce than it is, for “although he dreamt that T took him under my" wing find vouchsafed “him a deep. satistying sleep, in reality T went on holi¢ay and felt him to fend for himself.” 1f the dream was ‘of bliss, was that not what, subjectively, “meant”? or-was it an anxious message about lack of bliss?) Maddeningly, the answer, where dreams. are concerned, 1s often: both, ‘The trouble with teating the dream as @ crossword puzzle with cives and one right solution is that. quite ordinary dreams are apable of yielding layer upon layer of meaning over a period of time, one after the other lke the nine citi of Troy. And more importantly, the search for the hidden mestage can leave out the emotional el. ment in the dream, Although in his search for puns and riddles and metaphors Ry- etoft quotes many a beautifal and intricate Now Society 12 April 1879 fragment of dream like a connoisseur, one ‘would not learn from him that the most complicated plotline and rich assortment ‘of symbols may be emotionally nail, and the ‘most abbreviated dream be astonishingly loaded with feeling—as Lear's “Pray you, tundo this button” means more than’ the whale plot of Cymbeline. Yet he ends by quoting Gerard. Manley “Hopkins's_ poem, The Windhover, which, he says, is the cen- tral image of the book and was in fis mind throughout the writing of it, Like Freud, he lays down his arms before the ereative imagination. The mastery of the thing! Manhattalgia Cy Detiious New York (homer & Hain Reyner Banham Déliriat New York wa laecomer The apparently sil. proftable market for Man ata, that covetinted retrospect of the slyserapercrused island which, ‘many people all seem to thine of 98 the capital ff America. The present wave of Manfat- talgia rune from the Batman rv programmer sf 1965:67 19 Superman~the:Movie~and {s fundamentatycampan’-Art-Deco. Appre ciation Sosy "Not that the preset wave lacks works of serous scholaabip—The.Stsccroper Sie by Carvin Robins and Rosemary Bleter. ‘or Carol Krinskys Reckefeler Cantera the eamp and the serious always run back together, Robinson hada sizeable photo credit on Superman, Krinskys book came ‘ut on the day “they sived the Rocker and what could be mofe camp than that Proposil to preserve the Radio City chorus Tne ae civ monument?” Detrinup New York's also serious and camp: and innovative, sills penetrating, hooky, infuriating. Gierting, well rosea hed, badly organied, far to pleased with fief’ end marvelously secondte In other ‘words, Koolhaas isa genuine orginal Who Would. have written this book had. the present wave of skyscraper nostalsia never pened. Neverthe. the” more sa indalgen aspects of his thenis are at lest pavily atinstable to current camp. Yel Tnore are. due to the fact that the, whole project vas intially developed in and around the Architectural” Assocation in. London, that aademic Theatre of the Absurd where anyone with two ideas to rub topeher 8 tuaranied a large and unertial audience ‘Koolhaas is ako Dutch, whieh. means that his fs—ameng the present wave—an unigeely “uropean and’ ofeshore view Appropriately. then, he. atually begins on the: Atlante coast at "Coney and, the technology of the fantasti™ and works his way’ inward from there to finish at the eniepiece of the 1964 World's Fain, a Skeletal globe where “Ike charred pork: choos the continents cling desperately the Garease of Maniatis” ‘And for the purposes of thie book, Mashavtnism is" "the one urbanstic Ideology that as fed, frm ite inception, on the splendours and interies of the mete. aa aaeEeeEEEEEEEEEEniememmmemeeeee amen I1 L Now Society 12 Apri 1970 politsn_ condition—hyperdensty—without once losing faith in it as the basi for 2 desirable "modern caltre, - Monkatian's architecture is @ paradign for the explolta tion of congestion” Wel, it a good tey—the only trouble is that the ideology was so unstated and lide understood tack in the twenties that it hardly deserves the name of ‘ideology. Indeed, the fact that Koolhaes has had to Jwrite 4 “retroactive manifesto for Manhal anism” suggests that it may never have usted a5 & real “is until he identified 4nd named it ~The identifying and naming-—however instvetive-must remain largely symbolic. JF you add up hie case stidies and. his —heroes=Rockefetfer “Center, the Wakdort. {We Empire Stale building, the Downiowa Aletc club, and Samvel Lionel Rethafel (Roxy” of Radio City), Raymond Hood (architect of key skyserapers around 1930), Selvador Dai, Le Corbusier and John D. Rockefeller, for insance—they account for Sch a small part of the land surface and Fealestate values of this actually rather low-density island-city that. you. have 12 Wonder if the whole skysraper thing not URL a figment of a fevered imaineton. Not necessarily Koahaas', but that of Hgh Ferris, the real hero: of the book Ferris was a briliant architectural perspec rskysoraper New York Was the natral stamping ground. He promoted fantasies of his ov (The Metropolis of Tomorrow) and he converted other people's nancial calelations. into profiles of “bil 8 like mounting.” His was the vision of 8 Manhattan that might have been (oat for the stump and a fow other things) and hap- Pened only in fragments, of which the lst 's the United Nations building. aq Obviously fascinated, Koolhaas calls him the Prince of Darkness” but that really Won't do, Toa alice, too limiting. Ferris was & minor architectural, minary who shone the brighter for concentrating his talents Within a relatively tiny problem—the kinds OF bailings that might be built within a Souple-of Blocks “of Wall Sttect, ad “in Bldtown along Park and Fit. What makes hiv so typically Manhattan is the intensity obsessive parochial, nal isht—te parisn in question was then the financial eapital of the world, and there ore Of the atmost fascination to Europeans (Celézentinan, Welteriruns, coved. ite Mendelsohn in tones of religous ave), but {Las si a very litle parish architecturally, 2B spite of the size of the individual sac Uns (which Le Corbusier deemed “too Smal” in a. brilliant. presemptive quip to his own awestrick_provinclalisn) 1s Koothaas, o8, trapped in some Euro, BEER arochialism ‘and’ convinced thet he Understands when he does no, oF does his “ily-impressedprovincialism gi im {tune insights into the skyscraper jonele Tet true cosmopalte from, say, Rome ot scitiered or Edinburgh, might never pos Tez jTM= book, alas. not well enough AROUHE out noe well enoveh wetten for int BOW: “everything (or nearly evecy 8) is surface, sharply observed but Gelivered_in flip aphorisms ike: “Man's rush the wth floor is a neck-and-neck race between plumbing and abstraction.” But still, W's a load of fun; the pictures {except the projects by his own litle coterie) are fascinating and some are real finds, like the drawings for a hotel in Manhatten by, the legendary Antoni Gaudi, the last pas master of Art Nouveau. But when Kotha proposes an “affinity eiween Gaudi’ hysteria and Manhattan's frenay” he really ‘camps his esse to pieces. Gaudis design is not “an ideal skyscraper” uta Gothick Tower of Babel; put it alongside one of Perris'srenderings~and it-looks clumsy, pretentious, and nothing to do with Man: hatianism “as a paradigo for the exploita tion of congestion.” Treat the book, there. fore, as a marvellous postcard album of @ fossil future, and save is alleged arguments for a night when the Tv is on the Blink, Prison reform Rone So The Cove of Lou Term Prisoners Mac £398 paperback fardback Laurie Taylor ‘Vandals, muggers, probationers, prisoners and deviants of all shapes and. sites had better get themselves into good shape in the coming weeks. 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