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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAM. "Identity Diffusion" sets in. It's one of those modern diseases. But, like all modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...
...Harvard's enthusiasm for ROTC had died down to more modern levels. Since participation in ROTC made undergraduates draft-exempt, many took refuge in the program while expending as little effort as possible. Two Harvard students received dishonorable discharges in an incident that foreshadowed Colonel Pell's dismissal of four ROTC graduates last spring...
Untroubled by modern cancer research, many undergraduates smoked Murads, "the Turkish cigarette." Crisp Arrow collars did a brisk business around the Square at 20 cents each, two for 35 cents, three for 50 cents. Max Keezer proclaimed "Old clothes wanted--will call at your room day or evening at your pleasure...
Harvard didn't flinch. On July 29, "the first modern guerrilla warfare unit ever organized in the United States" held its first meeting in Emerson Hall. 175 sneaky undergraduates put their sangfroid on the line and joined the group, which announced it would emulate the tactics of Colonel Lawrence of Arabia. Four athletic credits were promised all participants...
People like the author of this book are the unthinking modern literary entrepreneurs who have adapted them-selves to "what works" in a big-corporation, big-media society. They are people concerned with "making it" in a life whose morality is outlined by television serials and legal codes. They pick up the style, the technique, and the rhetoric of already outdated reporting without seeking a truth, a meaning, an intelligent purpose for the books they write...