Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left of the sixties grew out of an affluent society. Worse than that, it grew out of a stable society. The movement lacked objective economic institutions to attack. The moralistic disapproval of capitalism had carried over from the thirties, but the thrust was no longer socialistic. Socialism is mentioned rarely by the moderate wing of the SDS, and even then only awkwardly. The enemy is the system, not just the capitalist system. The New Left has picked up the alienation of the beat generation and combined it with political activism...
...think Mr. Nixon is sensitive to the problems of black people and poor people," says Ralph Abernathy,Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "Blacks regard him as a President who is concerned only with the welfare of the rich and" the affluent."Liberals in Congress, who generally have been chary in their criticism of Nixon so far, are now finding the Administration's inaction-and some of its action-on race and poverty an increasingly inviting target...
...expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex issues, it appears that the effects are more intense among those young people who are more affluent and more highly educated...
...courses, where reading replaces talk off the tops of many heads. McLuhan says we're postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life styles feed the affluent pop consumer culture. Perhaps the blacks, being hungrier, can discipline themselves a bit better and do us all some good...
...riots, ousting Marcuse was obviously absurd. In the sunny San Diego campus of the UC system, Marcuse did little but walk the beaches with his crowd of devotees. Clumps of five or six Marcusians would discuss revolution as they strolled from the UCSD campus to their beach houses in affluent La Jolla, but there was little real revolution brewing at UCSD. Marcuse's books, of course, exerted an enormous international impact. But even in their grandest moments of self-congratulation, the Regents wouldn't have imagined that it was Marcuse's post at UCSD that gave him his reputation...