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...reporters would cover its annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think the MLA is the evil empire," says Alter, who maintains membership in both groups. "It's an umbrella organization. But academic people are conformist. With 30,000 people under...
...tried to figure out a little bit about how the world works, how political change happens, if it ever does," he says. "I don't think it's a coincidence that I'm a law professor and that I'm a law professor and that Michael [Kazin '70, then the chair of SDS] is a history professor...
...says Kazin asked him to chair the meeting because he stayed clear of the partisan squabbles that threatened to break SDS into ideological factions...
...generational protest on the onehand--protest against a bureaucratic society, ofthe uniformity coming out of the '50s," saysMichael Kazin '70, the former co-chair of SDS atHarvard...
Students at the time say they felt they couldliterally change the world. Kazin says theprotesters acted according to deep moral beliefs.Hyland calls them philosophers...