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Bravo! I enjoyed Lance Morrow's Essay "An Elegy for the New Left" [Aug. 15] very much. While showing the New Left reduced to ashes he is wise enough to see that it may well rise again, as did the phoenix. I was born a few years too, late to participate in the social movements of the '60s. But I, and others born in the mid-'50s, watched and learned much in those developing years. Many of us have adopted the value system that then flourished and have tried to guide our lives...
...Essay, Mr. Morrow founds his argument on Philip Rahv's quasi-philosophical sigh that nothing can last in America for more than ten years. So much for the Constitution, John Wayne, apple pie, Saul Bellow and the Ford Motor...
...wisdoms" and its rock troubadours. He lists the end of the war and the draft, the wide acceptance of marijuana, and women's liberation as the New Left's enduring accomplishments. Whether these will positively shape the course of the future remains to be seen. Mr. Morrow seems unbothered by long-range outcomes. He comforts and encourages the radicals that their "cycle will surely come around again...
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