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...magnum opus, the 704-page epic Great Neck, centers around a group of friends who grow up in the prosperous Long Island town of the same name and go on to participate in the political opposition movements of the 1960s. Much of the novel is loosely based on the history of the country and of Cantor himself...
Cantor describes Great Neck in the 1950s and 1960s as “exuberant.” The town’s residents were moving up in the world, and, according to Cantor, “they spent their money with vulgarity and delight...
...University was an important battleground in the youth movement of the 1960s, with the most significant battle being the 1969 takeover of University Hall. People who were part of the opposition, however, “suffered from self-importance,” according to Cantor...
Barbara Herman, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, pointed to the number of successful female students Rawls’ had as another mark of his pioneering liberal thought in the 1960s...
John Cooper, a professor of ancient philosophy at Princeton and Rawls’ former student and colleague at Harvard, said he remembered Rawls as being the sole calm professor when students stormed university buildings during the tumultuous period of protest of the late 1960s...