Word: braden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AQUARIUS by William Braden. 306 pages. Quadrangle...
Journalist William Braden, by contrast, is a kind of intellectual tourist guide, busing his readers through the suburbs of the American mind, 1970. On your far left, ladies and gentlemen, are the Yippies...
Whenever he comes to an intellectual celebrity, Braden, an indefatigable interviewer, jumps out of the bus and, in effect, braces him. What's wrong with America? The mike is yours, Erik (Identity Crisis) Erikson, or Bruno (The Children of the Dream) Bettelheim, or Christopher (The Agony of the American Left) Lasch, or Kenneth (Young Radicals) Keniston...
...Braden sums up the returns, Americans have been done in by technology. They have become producers and consumers first, people second. "The instrumentalization of things" has led to "the instrumentalization of man." Man has become the ultimate object of his own manipulation. He is in danger of engineering his own humanity out of existence: "We have met the enemy...
...rolling up of sleeves in the Gardner spirit will do for Braden. What Gardner takes to be the problems−racism, poverty amid affluence, and so on−Braden takes to be simply the symptoms of a sick society. Like Gardner, he wants to believe that America can be saved from its apocalypse, and all his interviews, all his quick-tour surveys are really devoted to looking into ways and means...