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Grocery stores such as Broadway and Sage's have not kept any count of the used containers on their hands; Broadway General Manager John Lichter simply calls the procedure "a godawful mess." "It's a very taxing proposition for us, "notes Stephen J. McCaffrey, manager of One Potato, Two Potato. "We have very limited storage space, hardly enough for incoming deliveries, let alone the returnables...
...call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter, and the New Left became a "carrier movement" for "irrationalism, spontaneous action [and] social disruption." In their view, style came to dominate content, and "the dynamic of escalating protest forced [young people] either to embrace all-out revolution by 'any means necessary' or to withdraw from the field of battle...
...piling the sociological data to new heights. Rothman and Lichter do not add much to these conclusions. Moreover, when the authors take the Jewish theme to its extreme, intertwining it with their SDS caricatures of various "rebel" types, they settle into some dubious armchair psychoanalysis...
...Differential and Thematic Apperception Tests is legitimate. What can be gleaned is that these methods rely on questionable interpretations of highly subjective data. The Thematic Apperception technique, for instance, consists of a set of vague pictures about which subjects are asked or write fictional stories. From that, Rothman and Lichter apparently quantify the myriad characteristics of protean versus rigid authoritarian...
...much of the New Left did disintegrate into an unimaginative revolutionary mindset in the late Sixties. The Rothman-Lichter "authoritarian" model seems fairly appropriate when applied to the post-1967 years and the devolution of the Weathermen. The authors set out to explain what powered a movement, and their effort has the positive effect of prompting curiosity about the variety of factors involved. But the book quickly becomes an indictment and fails because its charges are too often obscure and exaggerated. Regardless of its pathetic demise, the SDS-led New Left deserves serious consideration of its major accomplishment, forcing this...