READERS RESPOND

"YESTERDAY | RECEIVED MY SECOND COPY OF THE LADDER AND INMEDIATELY READ IT FROM COVER TO COVER, SAVORING EACH AND EVERY WORD.

"WE SUBSCRIBE TO ONE MAGAZINE AND ENJOY IT, BUT TO HAVE A MAGAZINE OF OUR OWN IS SOMETHING FOR WHICH WE WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL."

B.N., HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

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"ANOTHER YEAR HAS COME, LAUNCHING IN ITS WAKE AN AURA OF HOPE AND NEW CAUSES. CHANGE IS THE ESSENCE AND FLUX OF OUR TIMES: THE SUPREME UNREALIST IS HE WHO WOULD MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO. AND AS THE DCB IS WELL ON ITS THIRD YEAR OF ACTIVITIES, LET US PAUSE AND FEEL WHAT'S IN THE WIND!

"THERE ARE THOSE WHO BUILD THEIR PRIVATE DENS OF PERFECT | ON-~ SELF-AWAKEMENT, REALIZATION, AWARENESS ARE THEIR MEANS. AND THERE ARE OTHERS (LIKE MYSELF), SEEKERS AFTER LOST CAUSES AND SOME THAT ARE NOT SO LOST A SANER, HAPPIER WORLD.

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IN SEARCH OF A 'UTOPIA' OR THIS DICHOTOMIZATION OF VIEWS IS

NOT AT ALL NECESSARY: INDEED, THERE IS GREAT NEED FOR SYNTHESIS. DWELLERS WITHIN OURSELVES THAT WE ARE, THERE'S YET A ONENESS OF EACH TO ALL MANKIND, AND THE UNIVERSE.

"NOW IN THIS TIME, THERE IS MUCH LITERATURE OF PROTEST ON THE 'CREEPING APATHY OF OUR AGE'. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST, MARGARET MEAD, CHARACTERIZES THE 'NEW AMERICAN AS ONE SEEKING 'TO ESCAPE INTO ONE'S OWN LITTLE HOUSE AND ONE'S OWN LITTLE GARDEN AND THE SMALL BIT OF LIFE WHICH ONE MAKES A SUCCESS IN, AND THE CONCENTRATION UPON IT BECOMES A FLIGHT FROM LARGER ISSUES.' IN A SIMILAR VEIN, SIDNEY LENS FINDS THE MODERN CITIZEN RUNNING AWAY FROM THE BIG PROBLEMS OF WAR, PEACE AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE!

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