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...economic interest, the more artificial become the dissatisfactions. With our generation, offered by the corporate state the greatest promise of life ever, yet acutely conscious of the threat to that promise "posed by everything from neon ugliness to boring jobs to the Vietnam war and the shadow of nuclear holocaust," with our generation, which never quite accepted the premises of power of the corporate state, the old consciousness was pierced and made self-aware. The "postures and pretenses" finally could not bear the overwhelming discrepancy youth perceived between promise and reality...
...clearly in the hesitation in his choice of words and in the reserve of his speech. He used to be the editor of YAF's New Guard; now he works for Human Affairs. The band was playing "Wooden Ships," a gently bitter song about the time after a nuclear holocaust, and about the way things...
...difficult reality of life to accept. I recalled that as a child I became upset even at the make-believe injustices I saw in Lassie movies or read in Polly Pepper books. Then I had vivid mental images of real-life horrors throughout history, like the Inquisition and the Holocaust of the Jews during World War II. I saw the petty injustices that people commit against each other every...
Slater, chairman of the sociology department at Brandeis, views with increasing alarm the irrationally strong reactions we experience toward dissident "blacks, hippies, and student radicals." Contrasting "our intense fear of small and comparatively unarmed minorities" with the cheerful, schizoid blandness with which we greet the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or an ecological Armaggedon (or perhaps last night's neighborhood stabbing and the girl's annoying screams), he is very troubled about what sick things must be happening within ourselves...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...