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Hamilton correctly predicted that his arrival at Harvard would be immediately met by questions dealing with his "political descriptions of America and politically prescriptive formulations of Black Power." Many students referred to the critical reviews Black Power had received by Fred Powledge in the New York Times and Christopher Lasch in The New York Review of Books. For some the book was a disappointment; it was not radical enough--it established violence as disfunctional in the course of Black Power politics. Others complained that the book was not programatic--it gave the crux of the problem with only vague outlines...
...LASCH Cleveland
...Public Service: the Boston Globe for its campaign to prevent the confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as federal judge; National Reporting: Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star; International Reporting: Peter Arnett of the Associated Press; Local Reporting, special: John A. Frasca of the Tampa Tribune; Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Cartoons: Don Wright of the Miami News; News Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of UPI; History: the late Perry Miller; Biography: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter; Poetry: Richard Eberhart; Nonfiction: Edwin Way Teale...
...arts festival taking signatures on an anti-war petition. One might imagine that the radicals, if such they are, are hugely relieved to be once again in unqualified opposition to a hostile government and not cursed with the opportunity, however slight, of realizing the megalomaniacal tendencies that Mr. Lasch detects but does not name. Praise God, the autonomy of "culture" is at least temporarily secure...
...think the chase of the Questing Beast breaks down for lack of game, but the by-products of Mr. Lasch's journey are plentiful and fascinating. Given a thesis just vague enough to apply to anybody, we begin to realize that he's writing about, Americans, not just intellectuals; the pathological tone of earlier writings on the subject has disappeared, and a thoroughly entertaining act of scholarship has been committed...