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...University such as Harvard which plays so crucial a role in America's economic structure may never free itself of the dehumanizing aspects of its educational structure so long as the "relations of educational production" emulate the relations of material production in society. However, since the Millennium is somewhat distant, there is no excuse for ignoring the potential of the tools and ideas which are presently at hand...
...Send 'em a Message" runs one of the big slogans--a message mainly about two symbolic issues: "the busin'" and "the welfare." Government has withdrawn to the snug offices of a distant Washington bureaucracy which subjugates practical men to the dictates of "pointy-heads." They are destroying our schools for the sake of the minorities, they are taking our money and giving it away...
...reasoning for murder is simple. In the dim but not so distant past, it was thought that a human being had the right to be loved because he existed. More recently he is granted the right to exist only if he is loved beforehand...
...language of The Measures Taken, ceremonial and ideological at the same time, grows distant in repetition and aphorism. "The rope that cuts our backs lasts longer than ourselves," chant the boatmen that Young Comrade pities. "We must be blank pages on which the Revolution can write itself," say the leaders...
Sponsored by the New York journalism review [MORE] (circ. 8,000), the Counter-Convention attracted some 2,000 reporters, editors, freelancers, students, journalism professors and unaffiliated critics from all over the U.S. A few paid their own way to New York from points as distant as Hawaii to participate in the biggest forum ever involving those who write, report and broadcast the news. [MORE] Editor Richard Pollak promised all comers "a chance to bitch"; the response was collective catharsis. Panels on subjects ranging from "the new journalism" to "racism-sexism-elitism" were punctuated by scatological outbursts that went live...