Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Statement could easily become a cult movie about a sort of engage Graduate. MGM has already bought the movie option and production plans are under way. Kunen is in great demand for TV and radio talk shows and freelance assignments. But, as he told TIME Reporter L. Clayton DuBois last week, he skips them if they interfere with his duties as "one of the ordinary soldiers" among Columbia's warriors. He admits to some concern that "I occasionally get criticized for exploiting the movement and for allowing myself to spend time being co-opted by the mass media." What...
...usually chilling. For if his America does not first electrocute itself in some blinding burst of McLuhanesque energy, it will survive only to fragment itself into a bewildering array of esoteric subcultures. Technology is offering Americans a crude form of individuality combined with the possibility of commitment to the cults which will spring up. The only catch being the Cult is mutually exclusive of the life that surrounds it. Enter the Cult and you become disparaging and intolerant of the Outsiders. And so Wolfe's Americans--both in his essays and his cartoons--make their assault on the Cult...
Feuer refers to Camus as the philosopher of "alienation" and a generational hero. Feuer does not cover the cult of Che Guevara and Regis DeBray, though one passage recognizes the role of Fidelism in radical student culture. The spirit of Che synthesized all the ingredients of the New Left: an anti-American intellectual who galvanized the masses in one country and suffered glorious martyrdom in another. This vision of the radical's mission to redirect history made a somewhat turgid book called Revolution in the Revolution? a best seller. Feuer lists C. Wright Mills and Paul Goodman...
Realistic Codes. The statement was drafted by a small group of university heads and foundation officials, including Nathan Pusey of Harvard and Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame. It conceded that there were legitimate causes for student alienation, but deplored the "cult of irrationality and incivility" that has developed, warned that students who violate the law "must be prepared to accept the due processes and the penalties...
This is not a very fashionable stance for an American leftist today. The Movement is characterized by anti-intellectualism; the cult of direct action and all the nonsense about guerrilla warfare in America leaves little legitimacy among radicals for intellectual concerns. The activist proves his worth by "doing" rather than by "talking." Such theory as will be needed, the argument goes, can be developed as the Movement progresses: a program can work itself...