...have found that I get a lot of personal reward from being involved in the lives of my children.” American cultural traditions define personality, achievement,...suspended in glorious, but terrifying, isolation. These are limitations of our culture, of the categories and ways of thinking we have inherited, not...

...contribution and rewards them sparingly. In contrast to the dominant pattern of our society which defines “personality, achievement, and the purpose of human...suspended in glorious, but terrifying isolation” we see in these outstanding teachers people whose work is “morally inseparable” from their lives,...

...satisfied by the effects of their narcissistic self-absorption. As Robert Bellah and his colleagues note, “American cultural traditions define personality,...that leave the individual suspended in glorious, but terrif¿ving, isolation.”'° When the flash ofglory fades, the individual often discovers the emptyloneliness...

...these choices for themselves, without the framework usually provided by the needs of the collective. "American cultural traditions define personality,...suspended in glorious, but terrifying, isolation. These are limitations of our culture, of the categories and ways of thinking we have inherited, not...

...colleagues (1985) articulated the primacy of the individual/per” sonal over the communal as follows: ‘American cultural traditions define personality,...suspended in glorious, but terrifying, isolation. These are limitations of our culture, of the categories and ways of thinking we have inherited, not...

...of the heart conducive to living in community. Time and again, Bellah observed that people defined "personality, achievement, and the purpose of human...suspended in glorious, but terrifying, isolation." Shunning conformity, commitment, and obligation, modern individualists prefer to define their own standards...

...community. Bennis summarizes the problem of leadership in its relation to an understanding of the self: ' 'American cultural traditions define personality,...achievement, and the purpose of human life in ways that shower the individual with glory. ..." There is "a celebration of 'the self " in terms of excessive...

...the Heart, records how the idea of “individualism” has permeated American culture. Bellah writes, “American cultural traditions define personality,...but terrifying, isolation” (Bellah et al. 1985, 6). This is the modern precipitate from a long “historical conversation” that includes “biblical...

...consider that the most important single characteristic of the American people is individualism. They say: "American cultural traditions define personality,...suspended in glorious, but terrifying, isolation" (Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton, 1985, p. 6). According to them, such a sense of isolation in American...

...fabric of affection is torn loose, some part of ourselves is left behind. Given cultural traditions that "define personality, achievement, and the purpose...individual suspended in glorious but terrifying isolation," 25 it is something of a miracle that families have survived at all. In all our history, we have been...