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...long road to travel in a year. But the thing called the Establishment has always had a death wish, and it helped out nicely. The big ugly war pervaded all American institutions, including the university. The "institutionalized hypocrisy" that Kenneth Keniston says American youth hates is right here, right in front...
...Keniston talks in his new book, Young Radicals, about how most radicals have an image of their father that is split into two parts...
...Keniston explained radicalization in terms of coming face-to-face with the evils of society...
...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...