Word: levison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth H. Levison, the current Lowell House senior tutor who is also leaving the University next year, said yesterday. "It was embarassing that we had to wait this long but we felt it was absolutely necessary to go ahead with the appointment...
...Levison said that "it is not clear that the new master will be appointed by the summer and it is important for the senior tutor to start communicating with the students...
These are the strong points of Levison's book: a mass of detail and understanding of working class life, and the upholding of the essentially "progressive" character of the American worker. But there are discrepancies that Levison cannot account for, and he conveniently leaves them out of his book. For example, American workers probably are more patriotic and religious than the middle and ruling class. This goes along with their preindustrial dreams, which still have ideological power. Workers in America seem to oppose capitalism in two ways, and Levison only clearly sees one side of their opposition, and ignores...
...Levison sees the part of the working class nature which engenders social change, but he is hard pressed to see the total revolutionary opposition to the system--appearing at times as reactionary--contained in working class consciousness. Considering working class traditionalism--what some would call almost puritanism--and working class liberal reformism one sees that only the former is really opposed to modern, bureaucratic capitalism. American workers may have, up until now, viewed their salvation in the past rather than the future, but the reality of opposition has remained constant: a vote for George Wallace is certainly a vote against...
...face of social reality, in which case the existing system will somehow maintain itself; or the dream will recognize its fulfillment in the potential of the present, which will lead to a mass workers' movement. Which possibility will be acted on is uncertain: it is only sure that Levison is entirely right when he implies it is alone the working class's decision to make...