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...necessarily threatching to the conservatives. Deep down, the radicals share many long-standing ideals of the conservatives-ininimal governmental authority, even antiiniellectualism (read "anti-expertise"). The use of third-world rhetoric, obscenity and long hair only lends an easy out to the conservative who would like to dismiss radical ideas...
...Administration's ideal, says New Publius, is a "national localism." Such a notion, stated as a somewhat clumsy oxymoron, reopens the entire question of Federal power v. states' rights. For years, heirs of the New Deal have tended to dismiss states'-righters as rednecked Smerdyakovs. Shortly after New Publius circulated his paper, another White House speechwriter, Tom Charles Huston, 28, a former president...
Soil for the Future. Obviously, the James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theatre has more the air of group therapy than it does of legitimate theater. But it would be a mistake to dismiss it as some sort of peripheral fad. The true purpose of the avant-garde is to provide the soil in which future drama will grow. Aesthetic soil means shaping a mentality. For example, the Depression created the mentality of social consciousness, and out of that mentality sprang the social protest plays of the '30s and the Group Theater. The mentality of Freudian psychology prefigured Tennessee Williams...
...Corporation decided not to dismiss him, however, because the "grave misconduct" had been committed some nine years earlier...
...Administration may publicly dismiss antiwar protesters. Privately it can hardly ignore them, as witness various reactions reported in Avant-Garde magazine. "I'm against the war in Viet Nam," says David Laird, son of Defense Secretary Melvin. James Westmoreland, son of the Army Chief of Staff, "wouldn't want to serve in Viet Nam." And so it goes, through John Resor, son of Army Secretary Stanley Resor; Lindsay McKelvie, stepdaughter of CIA Boss Richard Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their...