Word: friedenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior while flying back to New York. Checking out the facts in Manhattan was Researcher Erika Sanchez (Hunter College, '60); the final grading was done by Senior Editor John Elson (Notre Dame...
...inner circle of back scratchers consists of John Holt (How Children Learn), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age), Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Edgar Z. Friedenberg (Coming of Age in America) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children). By no coincidence at all, Holt lauded Kozol's book in the New York Review of Books. Kozol praised Holt's book in LIFE and Friedenberg's book in the Christian Science Monitor. Coles exalted the Kozol and Friedenberg books in reviews for the New York Times. Friedenberg, in turn, gushed over Kozol's writing in the Saturday Review...
...sequence is not over. Although Kohl's book will not be released until Jan. 15, two of his fellow critics have already stepped way ahead of the pack to push it in print-Friedenberg praised it in the Saturday Review, while Coles wrote a blurb that appears on the dust jacket...
...strapping youngsters-suffer the little parents-are spectacularly discontented. Even more disturbing, too many youngsters are withdrawing rather than warring. While flower children go to pot, the new disease of alienation drives elite collegians into private exile. "Children are not fighting their parents," says Author-Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg (The Vanishing Adolescent). "They're abandoning them...
There is a Jewish scholar I admire named Edgar Friedenberg. Of the Negro people he wrote this...