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Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number...
Certainly David Riesman is America's best critic and, of course, an American critic must be a critic of our middle class. Upper-middle brows like to swat the middle-class with back issues of the New Republic, and Paul Goodman castigates the masses with vindictive paternalism. Riesman is less sure of himself, less polemical. In turn, he takes himself less seriously...
...according to this sociologist, is to make leisure more meaningful for the increasing number of people with time on their hands. To do this we "need changes in the whole society: in its work, its political forms and its cultural styles." Such talk is no less revolutionary than what Goodman wants--utopian reforms. Here Riesman's thinking encounters difficulties. Any scheme for utopia requires a comprehensive view of man; otherwise large-scale social reform has no coherence or legitimacy. But, unlike the 18th century ideologues, Riesman has no driving metaphysic; his approach is "one of seeing rather than doing...
This is quite inaccurate. I said that the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts had not yet decided on any action and that our practice generally was to intervene at the appellate level. Reuben Goodman Chairman Committee on Censorship Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
...Goodman said that any defense of the book would be based on the last censorship case in Massachusetts, which involved Tropic of Cancer. In that case the state Supreme Court declared that "anything with literary attributes" could not be banned and that it is "not the function of judges to serve as arbiters of taste...