Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution fails to confront these issues. Its standard for the University is one of "fairness," allowing an open market-place in which the military, as well as other interests, can function. We reject the notion that the University must welcome the instruments of repression in the name of freedom or the narrow self-interest of some Harvard students...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), is--if one were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served...
There are then certain honorable professions open to one, honorable in the sense that they fit in with the ideology of uncompetitive co-operation, unfettered individuality and the desire to fulfill a definite socio-political function...
...political and social service. The old dichotomy between full-time political revolutionaries and those who need to be politicized must be broken down. In the counter-community embodying the spiritual beliefs of the "communist consciousness," everyone is a political being as well as a performer of a socio-cultural function, whether it be film-making or teaching...
Lawyers and doctors too are needed but they must be community doctors and lawyers and their social function demands that they work for low salaries...