Word: openings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communal ethos, new family patterns, new sexual mores, new acceptance of the natural environment for its intrinsic beauty and dignity, new everything. Their revolution is primarily psychic: they are trying to get out of their heads and to explore the forgotten, non-intellective, human powers. They want to open themselves up to the totality of human experience. But no one can shake off a life-time of indoctrination in amonth or a year. Even as they aspire to joy, love, and honesty, too often their objective minds, which know better, laugh cynically...
...Roszak had his way, our social action would be essentially apolitical. it would closely resemble that of the civil-rights campaigns and the old New Left, with their emphases on the value of all human life, on non-violence, on what Keniston called "an open, personalistic, unmanipulative, and extremely trusting style." Social action is certainly necessary, and it must go on simultaneously with the development of the counter culture. But warfare terminology and terrorism have no meaning for a humane future. Besides, more humane violence at this late stage of the game is a waste of effort...
Deciding among these interests will not be easy; what pleases one is only to likely to offend another. In fact, one observer of the situation recently suggested that the only action that could win the University friends, in the short run at least, would be to open up the area as a park until final plans are developed...
...letter from SDS which accused his Subcommittee of "holding closed hearings precisely to prevent people from seeing the vicious purposes to which the Project will be put." The letter called the subcommittee "an academic rubber stamp for the Corporation" and ended with a "demand that [its] meetings be open and announced beforehand...
...Answering SDS's charge that the subcommittee is a "rubber stamp." Brooks said yesterday. "I wish to hell they were right; it would make our job much easier. "He added." I don't see what purpose open meetings would serve. If SDS wants publicity, that's their privilege. We're not interested in publicity but in finding out the facts...