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...Braden, an indefatigable interviewer, jumps out of the bus and, in effect, braces him. What's wrong with America? The mike is yours, Erik (Identity Crisis) Erikson, or Bruno (The Children of the Dream) Bettelheim, or Christopher (The Agony of the American Left) Lasch, or Kenneth (Young Radicals) Keniston...
...Kenneth Keniston has pointed out that the present college generation is the first to grow up under the threat of nuclear destruction. It is encouraging to think that some of the motives for current radical attitudes among young people may come from a sense of solidarity which evolves from this shared danger of uncontrollable death. The analogy with Flight 249 is incomplete in many respects, but the shared commitment to survival, self-sustaining among the flight passengers, is a lesson which may well be adapted to the international community, particularly among the present young generation...
...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...
...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...