Word: gasset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservatism has effectively to challenge it during the past few years. His failure to investigate the foundations of liberal strength reveals of a great deal, for he has staked his very definition of liberalism on the interpretation of current society provided by such men as and Ortega y Gasset, who describe the present pattern in terms of conformity and big government. Because Evans does not look to their discussion of causes, he can not draw their conclusions--that conformity and big government are inevitable...
...Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...