Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regents' last meeting in Los Angeles. Pressure from the chancellors delayed any conclusive decisions. But the plan is still poisonously healthy, and the Regents will have a chance at it again soon. Perhaps the chancellors' squawking will convince the Californians that the backlash at Sacramento has gotten out of hand. Reagan has gone over the brink, and he might drag the whole UC system down with...
Munro has a flock of lettermen returning this year, and several talented sophomores are on hand from last year's once-beaten Yardling team. "Our main problem all around is probably depth, especially at attack," Munro said last night...
...hand we have Marxist and Marx-influenced scholars, some good and some poor, who take materials apart in search of an organic historical pattern leading up to and including the generally accepted "American crisis" of our time. Among these are famous and controversial men such as William A. Williams, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Aptheker, and Staughton Lynd. As far as these four are concerned, the American polity has undergone two revolutions--1776 and 1861--two counter-revolutions--1789 and 1877--and subsequently, has pretty much raced along a path of increased industrialization, increased routinization, and increased, or at least...
...other hand, radicals can look to contemporary moral thinkers of various hues--Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Albert Camus, Leroi Jones--who level their sights at the attitudes rather than the content of the American historical picture, and explode the necessity as well as the desirability of such American traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian...
...cultural traits acquired somewhere else than in America necessitates a fence-straddling approach to national identity. Norman Mailer, among others, has tried to speak to the American side of us, i.e., to the side that we have acquired since getting off the boat. Philip Roth, on the other hand, has attempted to bring us back to the boat while we sit, stagnant, in America and has superbly evoked our confusion about cultural identity...