Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System." I almost suspect this "Donald Cars--well'50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Cars well's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
That tax-reform bill was something had not reckoned on? at least yet. It was a classic case of a Congress of one party forcing on a President of the other party something he not particularly want, though it was from the rancorous kind of battle Democrat Harry Truman fought almost weekly with the Republican 80th Congress. The habitual formula ? the President proposes, Congress disposes?was turned around...
...often, the angry young men of the new anarchy do not know what they are talking about, argues Paul Goodman in the preface to this new edition of the classic autobiography of an original anarchist, Prince Peter Kropotkin. The anarchist movement was indeed revolutionary. But its best thinkers in general, and Kropotkin in particular, were not wreckers but visionaries, more concerned with postulating a new society of individual freedom than in the momentary task of destroying the established one. Today's students must realize, adds Artist Barnett Newman in the foreword, that "revolution is more than a Nihilist Happening...
...visit to Saratoga Springs and a viewing of Saturday's classic might well be in order before exams. After all--the Whitneys, the Vanderbilts, the Von Stades, the Mellons, and the Phippses will be enjoying the scenery, and one can hardly fault their taste...
...landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back; Billy calls him Captain America. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun'--it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This is used to be a hell of good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...