Letters

Christopher Isherwood was an excellent writer--urbane, warm, witty, with appealing characters who interact in marvelously warm and interesting way. He began writing in the 1920s, with an autobiographical style that showed his disjuncture from the older generations, characters who were fatuous and entertaining, and certain not part of Christopher's new, modernist world. The stories possess a happy and adventuresome quality in the urban setting of Europe where most take place. While many people today may know Isherwood as a canonized gay advocate, it's important to recognize his highly erudite past. In "A Single Man," which was adapted into a film, he vividly portrays the gay life of a bygone era when being gay was deeply taboo. However, one of my personal favorites among his works is an earlier book titled "Down There on a Visit." This novel retains the style of his earlier prose when, as a Bohemian in his twenties, Isherwood dropped out of medical school an

  From Dr. Gene Schulz T o my erudite colleagues: I sure hope you are finding ways to pass on your knowledge to the next generations of Psychologists beyond this listserve. The best treatise I have found for "Intelligent Design" is "The Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel, a journalist who interviewed some leading scientists in several different scientific fields. He acknowledges change over time (which I would call evolution) but attacks Darwinism as the ultimate theory on the development of the human race. Unlike the Creationists who take the Bible literally (and can't explain how the kangaroos got from Australia to Noah's Ark in time to be saved from the flood), Strobel does not claim that it all happened a few thousand years ago. Strobel "evolved" from skepticism to Christianity and has written several books defending the faith. My own interest has been in the question of the evolution of human and animal consciousness, and the ongoing source of