Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of future directions, as well as past trends, the history of America is not only relevant--it is, like the history of Russia and China, absolutely essential to being at home in the modern, crazy world...
Even so, moral and historical interpretations of the national experience require some point of intersection to reach us all, or even to reach some of us. Americans whatever there is in the "Organization Man" syndrome of modern sociology, do have different spiritual centers even if their everyday behavior seems tightly organized and compulsively conformist. The simple fact that most of us have genes and cultural traits acquired somewhere else than in America necessitates a fence-straddling approach to national identity. Norman Mailer, among others, has tried to speak to the American side of us, i.e., to the side that...
...other major decision before the Committee was whether Cliffies would be allowed to join the gymnasts at Hemenway. Several girls in modern dance classes have expressed an interest in gymnastics. Mary G. Paget, coordinator of Recreational Activities at Radcliffe, has promised facilities and financial aid, but not until Harvard obtains a trained coach...
...violent revolution from within while the government continues to control the instruments of violence. The second fact is that the radical solution, in whatever precise form it eventually comes to be presented, has common sense on its side. It is possible to demonstrate the enormous social costs of modern capitalism. The need for change can be clearly shown to people. This does not mean that these things will be done. I am merely suggesting that we should begin by assuming that change is not impossible, that there are alternatives to giving up or flipping...
There is a great deal of serious work to be done. Our understanding of the modern American economy needs to be greatly improved, and radical critiques developed. Alternative systems of industrial organization and of education need to be formulated. The whole concept of decentralized democracy needs to be worked out intelligibly and plausibly. In short, credible alternatives to present forms of production and social organization must be proposed...