Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acid did have implications for radical politics, even if Wolfe misses them. Acid perhaps revealed the true extent to which our own minds form the social reality we accept as given. It gives us leverage to move outside the kind of stolid consciousness society has formed for us, and which it reinforces. It shows us that there are alternative kinds of consciousness that lead to new kinds of political activity. Many have found again that you can, to a greater extent than expected, react to events the way you choose to act, not the way they want...
Diplomatic Pressure. It was largely a manufactured momentum, reinforced by the fact that the foreign ministers of the hostile parties were attending the U.N. General Assembly. Arabs and Israelis felt the diplomatic pressure to the extent of revealing the negotiating positions that they had disclosed privately to Gunnar Jarring, the U.N.'s Middle East mediator...
...music comment on society? To the extent that electronic sounds suggest the dissonances in everyday life? Perhaps. But, as Italian-born Composer Luciano Beno says, music "cannot lower the cost of bread. It is incapable of stopping wars, it cannot eradicate slums and injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous...
...cannot presume to decide for anyone but myself what ought or ought not morally be done; for even in the heyday of t.v. and mass culture, conscience still remains an individual activity to the extent that it still intrudes uncomfortably on our consciousness. I simply know that I am incapable of rationalizing away the horror of Vietnam or the related, concrete immediacy of the CIA on our doorstep, and I will have a straight answer 20 years hence when I am asked, "Where were you when...?" I am also beginning to understand what the neutrality of scholarship really means...
...British labor unions existed long before the Labor Party. They helped create the party, continue to provide it with the bulk of its funds and its hard core of votes - and to some extent feel that they are, in fact, the party. The symbiosis works well enough when Labor is out of power and both party and unions need one another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist...