Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not Dean Ford holds these views without reservation, most radicals think he does. It is therefore hardly surprising that we on the left should begin to view all parliamentary procedures and all respect for the civil rights of Dow recruiters and under-graduate drill teams as hypocritical to begin with, and in the end reactionary. For in fact you have told me precious little if you tell me you are for the right to recruit and the right to "prepare for the military" and also against the Vietnamese...
...that is your liberal university, then we may as well tear the place down. For in that case your language is the valueless language of S.I. Hayakawa (lately active at San Francisco State), and your future is a barrenness masquerading as "the intellectual approach" to "any" topic, which Dean Ford called "the business of colleges and universities...
...point in his article, Dean Ford seems to cut himself off not merely from student radicalism -- which, after all, was not the whole scope of his article--but from the problems of growing up in America, in what he calls "the particular malaise of the 1960's." For he seems to feel that there is no legitimate connection between "growing pains" and revolution. But in fact, it is no accident that the young are now distrustful and rebellious, and that some of us would like a revolution. For this society provides very few decent ways of growing up, and that...
...clear, however, that our supposed childishness is anything more than our response to a debased liberalism. Dean Ford finds the source of our "destructiveness" in the tradition of Voltaire's "ecrasez l'infame." I think he would be more accurate to recognize our debt to Rousseau's refusal to accept the false culture Voltaire proposed--through D'Alembert--to introduce into Geneva. For I detect in Dean Ford's article an unwillingness to consider seriously the possibility that much of bourgeois culture and much of the culture of the university is fraudulent. I find such a stance as blind...
...fact, Galbraith has recently called for the "constitutional reform" of Harvard on at least partly the ground that the university will then be better able to deal with student radicals. (One wonders what Gailbraith thinks of Dean Ford's idea that "we need not surrender the very concept of differentiation of roles as among governing boards, faculty members, and students" for that is precisely what Galbraith wants to surrender, although as a radical I'm a bit suspicious of people who want to "deal" with...