Word: keniston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roszak had his way, our social action would be essentially apolitical. it would closely resemble that of the civil-rights campaigns and the old New Left, with their emphases on the value of all human life, on non-violence, on what Keniston called "an open, personalistic, unmanipulative, and extremely trusting style." Social action is certainly necessary, and it must go on simultaneously with the development of the counter culture. But warfare terminology and terrorism have no meaning for a humane future. Besides, more humane violence at this late stage of the game is a waste of effort...
...many of us in SDS do rather well in school, even in Dean Ford's terms. We make the Dean's List, win fellowships, go on to graduate school, and even write books. But it is really not crucial to try to do sociological studies (though people like Kenneth Keniston are doing them) to show that radical students, in fact, are as smart as other students...
...from privileged families--is the vision of failure these students see in the political system. The social injustice, the reaction in rioting that they see around them makes them reject the customary liberal belief that institutions already exist that can relieve the inequities. They have been around too long. Keniston writes...
...there was blood, too. The repression came, and for the first time in their lives, middle-class college students were clubbed and gassed by police and soldiers. It was Keniston's "confrontation with evil," the thing that radicalizes you. That night, a few thousand sat on the steps of the Pentagon with troops smashing them with rifle butts, but no one reported...
...Cambridge, a "failure of the system" sort of radicalizing event happened when a referendum on the war was soundly defeated. To quite a few hard-working students, including many that Keniston had interviewed months before, it was a stunning blow. The "channels" that liberals had talked about were turning out to be ineffective channels...