Word: kelman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans for the game include an "other team." Players from each side will, according to NAC, consider the members of the "other team" as enemies. A NAC spokesman said last night that the "other team" includes "deans, members of the CRR, senior tutors, photographers, SDS mis-leaders, and Steve Kelman...
...CENTRAL complaint Kelman lodges against the radicals-that they are elitists who assume a know-it-all pose-is a peculiar one, considering his own stance in the book. Toting a portable pulpit around with him, Kelman hops up from time to time to point out the true meaning of various incidents...
This pose is most irritating in the improbable scenarios which make up much of the book. The plot of these encounters is nearly always the same: Kelman enters a scene of political confusion, dispenses a few well-chosen? words, and leaves the previously-muddled speechless and enlightened. One of the best of these comes from Kelman's freshman diary, when he straightens out a few blacks...
...debate moves on, and we are given a glimpse of Kelman's tactics...
Compounding the problem of tone is the whining note of self-justification that runs through the book. Kelman's theory of democratic pluralism says that any reform group must act by convincing a majority of the people it is right. But since his own YPSL has so obviously failed by those standards at Harvard, Kelman has to find an alibi. Maybe it's because all the kids, are crazy. Or maybe the press has conspired to squash YPSL. Kelman's reluctance to consider any other reason inspires visions of Lyndon Johnson, muttering down on the ranch about...