Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addict of pop-psych, this exchange only raises the question of what the computer itself stands for. Machinery, according to some more-or-less-experts, "is always an alternate to sexual procreation." This idea is borne out by the current intellectually fashionable bestseller Giles Goat-Boy, in which a super computer gets pretty sexy with the coeds, and in fact sires the hero. Other theorizers, however, are not quite sure whether the computer is a father or a mother figure, or stands for Jung's "wise old man" in mechanized guise, or represents modern man's ultimate alienation...
...hasn't given up the idea of another cultural exchange tour," Engleman stressed. "We will probably wait a year or two, until our organization is better prepared for such a large undertaking...
...watered-down Garveyism--he is not so much interested in going back to Africa as in creating Little Africa rgiht in Los Angeles. He wants to incorporate Watts,. for instance, and call it Freedom City, with its own police force, transportation and school systems. "I am obsessed with the idea of freedom, of self-determination," Karenga said at a rally during the Watts Festival, "and I'd rather use a pump in Freedom City that we controlled than to turn on a faucet in a city where we are daily brutalized and have no power...
...seems also to be the one projected most outside the community. When groups of teenagers wearing "Black Power" sweatshirts assaulted white youths at the Teen Post Junior Olympics, for instance, headlines in the L.A. Times read, "'Black Nationalist' Plot Blamed for Teen Post Melee." The Youths undoubtedly had no idea of what nationalism is all about, but this is the way "black power" has filtered down to them, and to the white press...
Nationalism has caught on in Watts not because it is a new and exciting idea, but because it is an approach to the race problem which is grounded in the reality of being a ghetto Negro. It is not that nationalists or quasi-nationalists are trying to persuade or propagandize--it is more a matter of articulating feelings which are already there. As one nationalist put it, "If you grew up in the ghetto and think, you're automatically a nationalist...