Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, the Ramparts board of directors decided last week to go into bankruptcy, and Hinckle resigned as editor and president of the corporation. But whether the sensation-seeking journal of New Left opinion actually was dead was still uncertain. Hinckle said the situation was so hopeless that he would start a new publication, mischievously called "Barricades," that would be "an investigative, swinging magazine just like the old Ramparts"-but free of debt. Yet Frederick Mitchell, a 35-year-old former history professor who has reportedly put $500,000 of his inherited funds into Ramparts since becoming publisher two years...
...blinded in his left eye in an automobile accident as a child...
...says. There he is, out at the Academy awards the night he's been nominated for an Oscar, and he has no car, no driver, no place to sleep. I told him to take a cab and he could sleep in the living room. He came up, slept, left without making the bed, and I never...
...just the same zoo all over again. It was scary in the Himalayas, although I was scared of just about everything at that time. There were even photographers in the trees. I was there for my birthday, and I had to wear a silver hat. Two days later, I left...
Laing's polemic style and anti-Establishment vision have made him one of the New Left's favorite thinkers, along with Marxist Ideologue Herbert Marcuse and Social Critic Paul Goodman. His reputation in his profession is less secure. Many psychiatrists consider his social extrapolations most unscientific; his nonclinical approach to mental illness is too dependent on Laing's personal skills and mystique to be regarded as useful in other, less imaginative hands. At the same time, Laing's studies of schizophrenia are widely regarded as minor classics of their kind...