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...START on this project, Unger devotes the last chapter of Knowledge and Politics to a "theory of organic groups." He sketches a society of small, democratically-run communes. They are close-knit enough so that everyone knows the other members and has a form of "political love" for them, relating to them not in their work roles but as individuals. The inhabitants have lost all sense of pure self-interest and think only of the interests of the commune...
...Rumors. In fact, a little self-management would not be half bad. In the 19 months since the Portuguese revolution, virtually every institution in the country has fallen victim to political factionalism and a contest of wills. Even the now factionalized Armed Forces Movement, the tightly knit group of officers who engineered the 1974 revolution, realizes that it must come to some kind of agreement or it will be impossible for any government to operate. At week's end, the Revolutionary Council urged that the Cabinet return to its duties and try to resolve the crisis. But there...
State and federal law-enforcement officials admit that they know little about California's revolutionary underground. Charles Bates, chief of the San Francisco FBI office, points out that the groups are small, tightly knit, deeply suspicious of strangers, and thus virtually impossible to infiltrate...
This system--placing unlimited discretion in faculty members charged with running the University in a paternalistic manner--might be suited to a close knit academic community founded on trust and understanding. But as the University becomes more impersonal, fairness towards students requires a more open administration and formal procedures for student grievances. As the University community becomes more like the outside world, students should be recognized to have rights, not merely demeaning obligations...
...even without cohesive drama or great characters, Beyond the Bedroom Wall demonstrates a fine talent for description, coupled with a Proustian ability to re-create the past. Much of Woiwode's fiction seems knit from the strands of his own life. Like the fourth generation of Neumiller children, the Manhattan-based Woiwode was born in North Dakota and spent part of his childhood in rural Illinois. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1964, he began selling articles and short stories to magazines. His first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think...