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...THAT'S THE CASE, SHOULD EVEN NON-PROTESTANTS MOURN ITS DECLINE? Not necessarily. By now, Protestantism's main nontheological message of radical individualism (or, as Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah skeptically lampoons it, "You can be anything you want to be ... and if you don't make it, you have no one to blame but yourself") is deeply encoded in our national self-understanding--and even upon other religions, once they have spent a few generations here. "Catholics for choice?" Snorts John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "That's Protestantism." Not quite, but it is proof that whatever...
...final question is this: Is the simple life just a passing fancy, a stylish flashback of the 1960s? Not so, say people who have studied both eras. Contends Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah: ''It's no longer messianic, the way it was in the '60s, but relatively pragmatic. That may give the present mood a greater staying power.'' That's good, because the American generation now reaching middle age has a lot of promises to keep - not to mention mortgages to carry, tuition to pay and lawns to mow. No wonder they want to keep it simple...
Bundy put a similar condition on Robert Bellah's appointment as an instructor in the Social Relations Department and sent him to University Health Services where a doctor asked him if he had "engaged in sexual acts" for which he "could be blackmailed...
...When Bellah was a graduate student, Bundy told him that he would have to name names of his associates in the Communist Party in order to retain his fellowship. Bellah left the University for Canada rather than accept the conditions...
...could have intense discussions at thedinner table, but that didn't result in any kindof activity that would have a real effect onevents," Bellah says. "No one got agitated aboutit, because if you started talking about the Billof Rights, you were branded a Communist."Harvard ArchivesARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER '37 lecturedfrequently on the dangers of communism...